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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