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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/" >}})
- [Alertmanager]({{< relref "alertmanager/" >}})
- [State and health of alerting rules]({{< relref "state-and-health/" >}})
- [Evaluating Grafana managed alerts]({{< relref "evaluate-grafana-alerts/" >}})