Use the Grafana Alerting - Opsgenie integration to receive alert notifications in your Opsgenie alert dashboard when your Grafana alert rules are triggered and resolved.
## Before you begin
Create an API key to enable Grafana to send alert notifications to Opsgenie alert dashboard.
To create an API key in Opsgenie, complete the following steps.
1. Follow the steps in the [API integration guide](https://support.atlassian.com/opsgenie/docs/create-a-default-api-integration/).
Make sure you turn on the integration.
1. Copy the API key.
## Procedure
To create your Opsgenie integration in Grafana Alerting, complete the following steps.