How to set up grafana notifications?

@mallory_cormier 

Setting up Grafana notifications is a crucial step in monitoring your systems and applications. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to set up notifications in Grafana:

1. To set up notifications, you first need to configure an alert notification channel. Go to the "Alerting" section of your Grafana configuration and select "Notification channels" in the sidebar.
2. Click on "New Channel" to create a new notification channel. Choose the type of notification channel you want to use (e.g. Email, Slack, PagerDuty, etc.) and provide the necessary details such as email address, API key, webhook URL, etc.
3. Once you have created your notification channel, you can now set up alerts for your dashboards. Go to the dashboard you want to set up alerts for and click on the "Alert" tab.
4. Click on "Create Alert" to set up a new alert rule. Define the conditions for the alert (e.g. threshold value, aggregation function, time period) and select the notification channel you want to use for sending alerts.
5. You can also configure additional settings for the alert, such as the frequency of evaluation, alerting interval, and whether to include the alert rule in the dashboard.
6. Click on "Save alert rule" to save your alert configuration. Grafana will now evaluate the alert rule based on the defined conditions and send notifications to the configured notification channel when the alert is triggered.

By following these steps, you can set up notifications in Grafana to stay informed about critical events and issues in your monitoring environment.