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---
aliases:
- ../high-availability/enable-alerting-ha/
- ../unified-alerting/high-availability/
description: Enable alerting high availability
keywords:
- grafana
- alerting
- tutorials
- ha
- high availability
title: Enable alerting high availability
weight: 300
---
# Enable alerting high availability
You can enable alerting high availability support by updating the Grafana configuration file. If you run Grafana in a Kubernetes cluster, additional steps are required. Both options are described below.
## Enable alerting high availability in Grafana
### Before you begin
Since gossiping of notifications and silences uses both TCP and UDP port `9094`, ensure that each Grafana instance is able to accept incoming connections on these ports.
**To enable high availability support:**
1. In your custom configuration file ($WORKING_DIR/conf/custom.ini), go to the `[unified_alerting]` section.
2. Set `[ha_peers]` to the number of hosts for each Grafana instance in the cluster (using a format of host:port), for example, `ha_peers=10.0.0.5:9094,10.0.0.6:9094,10.0.0.7:9094`.
You must have at least one (1) Grafana instance added to the [`[ha_peer]` section.
3. Set `[ha_listen_address]` to the instance IP address using a format of `host:port` (or the [Pod's](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/) IP in the case of using Kubernetes).
By default, it is set to listen to all interfaces (`0.0.0.0`).
## Enable alerting high availability using Kubernetes
If you are using Kubernetes, you can expose the pod IP [through an environment variable](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/environment-variable-expose-pod-information/) via the container definition.
```bash
env:
- name: POD_IP
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: status.podIP
```
1. Add the port 9094 to the Grafana deployment:
```yaml
ports:
- containerPort: 3000
name: http-grafana
protocol: TCP
- containerPort: 9094
name: grafana-alert
protocol: TCP
```
2. Add the environment variables to the Grafana deployment:
```yaml
env:
- name: POD_IP
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: status.podIP
```
3. Create a headless service that returns the pod IP instead of the service IP, which is what the `ha_peers` need:
```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: grafana-alerting
namespace: grafana
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: grafana-alerting
app.kubernetes.io/part-of: grafana
spec:
type: ClusterIP
clusterIP: 'None'
ports:
- port: 9094
selector:
app: grafana
```
4. Make sure your grafana deployment has the label matching the selector, e.g. `app:grafana`.
5. Add in the grafana.ini:
```bash
[unified_alerting]
enabled = true
ha_listen_address = "${POD_IP}:9094"
ha_peers = "grafana-alerting.grafana:9094"
ha_advertise_address = "${POD_IP}:9094"
```