Alertmanager data source
Grafana includes built-in support for Alertmanager implementations in Prometheus and Mimir. Once you add it as a data source, you can use the Grafana Alerting UI to manage silences, contact points, and notification policies. To switch between Grafana and any configured Alertmanager data sources, you can select your preference from a drop-down option in those databases’ data source settings pages.
Alertmanager implementations
The data source supports Prometheus and Grafana Mimir (default) implementations of Alertmanager. You can specify the implementation in the data source’s Settings page. When using Prometheus, contact points and notification policies are read-only in the Grafana Alerting UI, because it doesn’t support updates to the configuration using HTTP API.
Configure the data source
To configure basic settings for the data source, complete the following steps:
Click Connections in the left-side menu.
Under Your connections, click Data sources.
Enter
Alertmanager
in the search bar.Click Alertmanager.
The Settings tab of the data source is displayed.
Set the data source’s basic configuration options:
Name Description Name Sets the name you use to refer to the data source Default Sets whether the data source is pre-selected for new panels and queries Alertmanager Implementation Alertmanager implementation. Mimir, Cortex, and Prometheus are supported Receive Grafana Alerts When enabled the Alertmanager receives alert instances from Grafana-managed alert rules. Important: It works only if Grafana alerting is configured to send its alert instances to external Alertmanagers HTTP URL Sets the HTTP protocol, IP, and port of your Alertmanager instance, such as https://alertmanager.example.org:9093
Access Only Server access mode is functional
Provision the Alertmanager data source
You can provision Alertmanager data sources by updating Grafana’s configuration files. For more information on provisioning, and common settings available, refer to the provisioning docs page.
Here is an example for provisioning the Alertmanager data source:
apiVersion: 1
datasources:
- name: Alertmanager
type: alertmanager
url: http://localhost:9093
access: proxy
jsonData:
# Valid options for implementation include mimir, cortex and prometheus
implementation: prometheus
# Whether or not Grafana should send alert instances to this Alertmanager
handleGrafanaManagedAlerts: false
# optionally
basicAuth: true
basicAuthUser: my_user
secureJsonData:
basicAuthPassword: test_password
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