grafana/docs/sources/alerting/configure-notifications/_index.md

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description: Configure how, when, and where to send your alert notifications
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menuTitle: Configure notifications
title: Configure notifications
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# Configure notifications

Choose how, when, and where to send your alert notifications.

As a first step, define your [contact points][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][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][templates-page] to contact points for reuse and consistent messaging in your notifications.

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