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canonical: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/configure-notifications
description: Configure how, when, and where to send your alert notifications
keywords:
- grafana
- alert
- notifications
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products:
- cloud
- enterprise
- oss
menuTitle: Configure notifications
title: Configure notifications
weight: 125
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contact-points:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/fundamentals/notifications/contact-points/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/fundamentals/notifications/contact-points/
notification-policies:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/fundamentals/notifications/notification-policies/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/fundamentals/notifications/notification-policies/
templates-page:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/fundamentals/notifications/templates/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/fundamentals/notifications/templates/
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# Configure notifications
Choose how, when, and where to send your alert notifications.
As a first step, define your [contact points](ref:contact-points) where to send your alert notifications to. A contact point is a set of one or more integrations that are used to deliver notifications.
Next, create a [notification policy](ref:notification-policies) which is a set of rules for where, when and how your alerts are routed to contact points. In a notification policy, you define where to send your alert notifications by choosing one of the contact points you created.
Optionally, you can add [notification templates](ref:templates-page) to contact points for reuse and consistent messaging in your notifications.