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aliases = ["/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/fundamentals/", "/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/metrics/", "/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/unified-alerting/fundamentals/"]
title = "Alerting fundamentals"
weight = 110
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# Alerting fundamentals

This section includes the following fundamental concepts of Grafana alerting:

- [Annotations and labels for alerting rules]({{< relref "./annotation-label/_index.md" >}})
- [Alertmanager]({{< relref "./alertmanager.md" >}})
- [State and health of alerting rules]({{< relref "./state-and-health.md" >}})
- [Evaluating Grafana managed alerts]({{< relref "./evaluate-grafana-alerts.md" >}})