Notifications in Grafana

In the newest versions of Grafana, notifications are implemented using contact points. These contact points determine how the users will be notified when an alert triggers.

You can have several contact point types for the same contact point. For instance, you may have email and Slack. If an alert is triggered, all the contact point types included in the contact point will be used. You can also customize each notification message for every contact point type.

Let’s see how you can create a contact point.

Adding a contact point

To add a contact point, you have to go to the Contact points tab on the Alerting page, as you can see in Figure 10.6.

Once there, you can perform the following steps:

1. Click on the New contact point button.
2. Give a name to your new contact point.
3. From the drop-down list, select Alertmanager.
4. Click on the New contact point type button.
5. In the Contact point type section, select the one you want...