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Documentation Learning paths Deploy an alert rule with Terraform Destination reached!

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Deploy an alert rule with Terraform

17 min

Milestone 1

Business value

2 min

Milestone 2

Create a service account token

2 min

Milestone 3

Configure the Terraform provider

1 min

Milestone 4

Define a folder and a rule group

2 min

Milestone 5

Add a contact point

1 min

Milestone 6

Add a notification policy

2 min

Milestone 7

Run the Terraform plan

2 min

Milestone 8

Apply and verify

2 min

Milestone 9

Destination reached!

1 min

Destination reached!

Congratulations on completing this journey! Job well done!

We hope you’ve enjoyed traveling with us as you:

• Created a Grafana service account token for automated authentication
• Configured the Grafana Terraform provider with your credentials
• Defined a folder, alert rule group, contact point, and notification policy in HCL
• Ran terraform plan to safely preview changes before applying
• Deployed the full alerting pipeline with terraform apply and verified it in Grafana

More to explore (optional)

The world is your oyster! Read more about how you can:

• Export existing alert rules to Terraform HCL from the Grafana UI
• Automate with GitHub Actions to deploy resources on every merge
• Add mute timings to suppress notifications during maintenance windows
• Explore the Grafana Terraform provider docs to manage dashboards, data sources, SLOs, and more

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Apply and verify

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