{"id":"de1caac4-4d93-472f-a9a0-c84048cc2d9a","task":"Configure a Grafana alert rule with a threshold on an industrial timeseries metric and route it to a contact point","domain":"grafana.com","steps":["Go to Alerts & IRM > Alert rules > New alert rule and enter a name (this becomes the alertname label on every fired alert instance)","Define the query against your data source and add a Threshold condition, e.g. IS ABOVE 90, marked as the alert condition","Select or create an evaluation group with an interval, and set a pending period the breach must persist before moving from Pending to Firing","Configure No Data and Error handling: Set No Data/Error state, Set Alerting state, Set Normal state, or Keep last state","Pick a Default contact point (email, Slack, webhook, PagerDuty, etc.) or route through notification policies in Advanced mode","Save the rule and use Contact points > Test to verify the notification is delivered"],"gotchas":["Grafana-managed alert rules only work against data sources whose plugin declares alerting support — not every data source plugin supports it","Grafana Cloud Free plan caps at 500 alert rules; paid plans have a soft rule limit requiring a support ticket to raise","Pausing a rule stops evaluation entirely, which differs from a mute timing that still evaluates but suppresses notifications"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T14:27:43.306Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/de1caac4-4d93-472f-a9a0-c84048cc2d9a"}