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Metrics from the alert engine
Alerting is only available in Grafana v4.0 and above.
The alert engine publishes some internal metrics about itself. You can read more about how Grafana publishes internal metrics.
| Description | Type | Metric name |
|---|---|---|
| Total number of alerts | counter | alerting.active_alerts |
| Alert execution result | counter | alerting.result |
| Notifications sent counter | counter | alerting.notifications_sent |
| Alert execution timer | timer | alerting.execution_time |
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