Can disabled queries in Graph panels be used, to create Grafana alerts?

Grafana Time Series Panel
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Hi,

is it possible to use disabled queries in Grafana graph panels to create Grafana alerts?

Why do you want to do that (Background)?

I am having one metric providing information about disk pace usage on certain directories on a server. This metric I am using to show the information on graph panel.

There is a second metric which is providing also information about disk space usage on certain directories on a server, but is showing the disk space usage in percentage instead of units.

I would like to use the second metric to create Grafana alerts - on the same graph panel (For example: If the disk space usage of a certain directory is going above X%, then ALERT.

Since I do not want to display the scond metric on a Graph panel, I am using Grafanas feature to disable this query.

Now the question is, can I use this disabled query to create Grafana alerts?

Many thanks in advance.

[Grafana version: 6.5, Datasource: Prometheus]

Best regards
HamidJa

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Hi HamidJa,

Yes, you can do that, i have used the same trick.

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Hi @danielgonzalez,

thank you for the feedback.

This is a very nice feature, as you do not need to create a new graph panel only for that alert :slight_smile: