Alerting: Grafana-Managed Alerting is the default in new stacks
UpdateUnverifiedAdded Sep 24, 2026
New Grafana Cloud stacks now use Grafana-Managed Alerting (GMA) by default , Datasource-Managed Alerting (DMA) is no longer provisioned in new stacks. Scope: New stacks only. Existing stacks and existing DMA rules are unaffected. This is a provisioning-time change, not a migration.
Topics: Observability
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