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- unified-alerting/set-up/ # /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/unified-alerting/set-up/
canonical: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/set-up/
description: Set up or upgrade your implementation of Grafana Alerting
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menuTitle: Set up
title: Set up Alerting
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# Set up Alerting
Set up or upgrade your implementation of Grafana Alerting.
**Note:**
These are set-up instructions for Grafana Alerting Open Source.
## Before you begin
- Configure your [data sources](ref:data-source-management)
- Check which data sources are compatible with and supported by [Grafana Alerting](ref:data-source-alerting)
Watch this short video to get started, or follow the [written tutorial](http://grafana.com/tutorials/alerting-get-started/).
{{< youtube id="6W8Nu4b_PXM" >}}
## Set up Alerting
To set up Alerting, you need to:
1. Configure alert rules
- Create Grafana-managed or Mimir/Loki-managed alert rules and recording rules
1. Configure contact points
- Check the default contact point and update the email address
- Optional: Add new contact points and integrations
1. Configure notification policies
- Check the default notification policy
- Optional: Add additional nested policies
- Optional: Add labels and label matchers to control alert routing
1. Optional: Integrate with [Grafana OnCall](/docs/oncall/latest/integrations/grafana-alerting)
## Advanced set up options
Grafana Alerting supports many additional configuration options, from configuring external Alertmanagers to routing Grafana-managed alerts outside of Grafana, to defining your alerting setup as code.
The following topics provide you with advanced configuration options for Grafana Alerting.
- [Provision alert rules using file provisioning](ref:file-provisioning)
- [Provision alert rules using Terraform](ref:terraform-provisioning)
- [Add an external Alertmanager](ref:configure-alertmanager)
- [Configure high availability](ref:configure-high-availability)