Manage Prometheus, Mimir, and Loki alerting with a dedicated plugin
Update4 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 21, 2026
Managing alert rules in Prometheus, Mimir, and Loki is moving into a dedicated Grafana app plugin, Prometheus Alerting . The plugin is built around how those systems actually work.
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