Guide to Grafana 101: Getting Started With Alerts

Timescale Developer Advocate, #Grafana enthusiast, and time-series pro @avthars breaks down how alerting works in Grafana (including a handy cheatsheet for Grafana's alert states and alert lifecycles).

You’ll learn how to define and configure 3 kinds of alerts for anomalies in the metrics you care about, trigger notifications via #PagerDuty, Slack, and #OpsGenie, and customize alerts for your projects.

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⏱ 0:00 ⇒ Introduction
⏱ 2:42 ⇒ Alerting Principles
⏱ 5:26 ⇒ Alerting in Grafana
⏱ 14:53 ⇒ Let's Code - Implementing 3 alerting rules and 3 notification channels
⏱ 16:40 ⇒ Demo Alert 1: Alert with FOR sent via Slack
⏱ 25:58 ⇒ Lifecycle of Alerts with FOR
⏱ 30:10 ⇒ Demo Alert 2: Alert without FOR sent via PagerDuty
⏱ 35:56 ⇒ Lifecycle of Alerts without FOR
⏱ 39:43 ⇒ Demo Alert 3: Alert with No Data sent via OpsGenie
⏱ 44:45 ⇒ Lifecycle of Alerts with No Data
⏱ 48:07 ⇒ Resources and Next Steps