If you use Prometheus and have everything that you want to alert on instrumented with Prometheus then of course that makes sense. But if you want to alert on o

If you use Prometheus and have everything that you want to alert on instrumented with Prometheus then of course that makes sense. But if you want to alert on other data sources, and especially to see and manage all alerts in one place, then this is what Grafana Alerting now enables. Example I encountered a while ago: Alert on billing throughput within a third party (not instrumented with Prometheus) billing system that has a RDBMS backend. The alert can be written in SQL and with the changes in Grafana 8 could be acted upon and routed just like the Prometheus alerts were.