Alerting for no metric recieved

Hi,
We have a use case, where we have multiple nodes and these nodes sends metrics to grafanalabs. We are able to raise alert for the node based on the metrics.
But in some case, because of some issue, if the node doesnt sends any metrics, we want to raise alert for that.
I checked the alerting, we have absent function, but it is useful, only if we run it with particular node label filter. It cannot generically give all nodes not sending metrics.
Can this be achieved through grafana.
Thanks you