Alerts Customization

You can further setup and customize alerts in the stack.

Customize Alert Contact points

If you want alerts to go to a different contact, for example an Email address instead of slack, you can customize where alerts are sent by defining a new contact point in Grafana:

notifiers:
  - name: "custom-contact"
    type: "slack"
    settings:
      url: "https://hooks.slack.com/services/..."

Mount this file into:

/etc/grafana/provisioning/alerting/custom-contact.yml

Then update the environment variable:

ALERTING_DEFAULT_CONTACT=custom-contact

Note to be only mount the exact file, and not override the whole provisioning folder in the image, as this is already used to contain the defaults.

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Add Custom Alerts

You can make custom alerts.

To define additional alert rules, create files in:

/etc/grafana/provisioning/alerting/

Grafana will automatically load these at startup.