Enable Grafana 8 Alerts

At startup, when the feature toggle is enabled, the legacy Grafana dashboard alerting is disabled and existing dashboard alerts are migrated into a format that is compatible with the Grafana 8 alerting system. You can view these migrated rules, alongside any new alerts you create after the migration, from the Alerting page of your Grafana instance.

Read and write access to dashboard alerts in Grafana versions 7 and earlier were governed by the dashboard and folder permissions under which the alerts were stored. In Grafana 8, alerts are stored in folders and inherit the permissions of those folders. During the migration, dashboard alert permissions are matched to the new rules permissions as follows:

During beta, Grafana 8 alerting system can retrieve rules from all available Prometheus, Loki, and Alertmanager data sources. It might not be able to fetch rules from all other supported data sources at this time.

Since and Sensu are discontinued, they are not migrated to the new alerting. If you have dashboard alerts associated with those types of channels and you want to migrate to the new alerting, make sure you assign another supported notification channel, so that you continue to receive notifications for those alerts. Finally, silences (expiring after one year) are created for all paused dashboard alerts.

To disable Grafana 8 Alerting, remove or disable the feature toggle. Dashboard alerts will be re-enabled and any alerts created during or after the migration are deleted.