[Systemic33]

Hi Torkel,

First off, Grafana is amazing! So keep up the good work.

Question: Currently alerts are fairly limited both in applicable panels and how they export/share relevant data to the chosen notification channel, as well as more advanced conditions. Is there any work going on with improving alerts?

[dig1]

Also to mention frequently asked feature: alerts using queries and templated variables [1][2]. Creating even simple generic dashboards with alerts is not possible, unless variables are hardcoded in hidden queries.

[1] https://community.grafana.com/t/template-variables-are-not-s...

[2] https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6557

[hobochili]

Agreed. If Grafana alerts supported templated variables I would migrate a decent chunk of my monitoring stack. But without templated variables the alert system feels half baked and I almost prefer it not even be a feature.

[atrandom]

yes, this is a huge pain point for us as well