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title: "Introduction to Grafana Alerting | Grafana Labs"
description: "Create a Grafana-managed alert rule from start to finish without writing any PromQL. Install the QuickPizza demo app, build a Prometheus query for HTTP 5xx server errors in the visual query builder, set a threshold, and route notifications to a contact point."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Introduction to Grafana Alerting

Create a Grafana-managed alert rule from start to finish without writing any PromQL. Install the QuickPizza demo app, build a Prometheus query for HTTP 5xx server errors in the visual query builder, set a threshold, and route notifications to a contact point.

Journey

A journey is a guided series of sections that builds up a topic in depth and is more comprehensive than a path, which covers one focused task.

Slides

18

Duration

20 min

[Start journey](/docs/learning-hub/basic-alerting/01-intro/01-course-overview/)