Contact points
Grafana alerting UI allows you to configure contact points for the Grafana managed alerts (handled by the embedded Alertmanager) as well as contact points for an external Alertmanager if one is configured, using the Alertmanager dropdown.
- Click Add contact point.
- Enter a Name for the contact point
- Select contact point type and fill out mandatory fields. Optional settings can be expanded for more options.
- If you’d like this contact point to notify via multiple channels, for example both email and slack, click New contact point type and fill out additional contact point type details.
- Click Save contact point button at the bottom of the page.
- In the Grafana side bar, hover your cursor over the Alerting (bell) icon and then click Contact points.
- Make any changes and click Save contact point button at the bottom of the page.
- In the Grafana side bar, hover your cursor over the Alerting (bell) icon and then click Contact points.
- Find the contact point you want to edit in the contact points table and click the trash can icon on the right side.
- A confirmation dialog will open. Click Yes, delete.
Note You will not be able to delete contact points that are currently used by any notification policy. If you want to delete such contact point, you will have to first go to notification policies and delete the policy or update it to use another contact point.
- In the Grafana side bar, hover your cursor over the Alerting (bell) icon and then click Contact points.
- In the dropdown at the top of the page, select an Alertmanager data source.
- Fill out the form and click Save global config.
Note this is only for external Alertmanagers. Some global options for Grafana contact types, like email settings, can be configured via .