Im using 8.3 and still have legacy Alerts showing ( now with a suggestion to migrate to unified ) but i cannot for the life of me find the “Unified alert” line or section in the config file code.
Where is it please - anybody?
Where are you running grafana and how precisely are you upgrading? What config file are you opening? Perhaps your config is old? Here is the new section in the sample.ini from a newly downloaded 8.3 instance:
...
#################################### Unified Alerting ####################
[unified_alerting]
#Enable the Unified Alerting sub-system and interface. When enabled we'll migrate all of your alert rules and notification channels to the new system. New alert rules will be created and your notification channels will be converted into an Alertmanager configuration. Previous data is preserved to enable backwards compatibility but new data is removed.```
;enabled = true
# Comma-separated list of organization IDs for which to disable unified alerting. Only supported if unified alerting is enabled.
;disabled_orgs =
# Specify the frequency of polling for admin config changes.
# The interval string is a possibly signed sequence of decimal numbers, followed by a unit suffix (ms, s, m, h, d), e.g. 30s or 1m.
;admin_config_poll_interval = 60s
# Specify the frequency of polling for Alertmanager config changes.
# The interval string is a possibly signed sequence of decimal numbers, followed by a unit suffix (ms, s, m, h, d), e.g. 30s or 1m.
;alertmanager_config_poll_interval = 60s
# Listen address/hostname and port to receive unified alerting messages for other Grafana instances. The port is used for both TCP and UDP. It is assumed other Grafana instances are also running on the same port. The default value is `0.0.0.0:9094`.
;ha_listen_address = "0.0.0.0:9094"
# Listen address/hostname and port to receive unified alerting messages for other Grafana instances. The port is used for both TCP and UDP. It is assumed other Grafana instances are also running on the same port. The default value is `0.0.0.0:9094`.
;ha_advertise_address = ""
# Comma-separated list of initial instances (in a format of host:port) that will form the HA cluster. Configuring this setting will enable High Availability mode for alerting.
;ha_peers = ""
# Time to wait for an instance to send a notification via the Alertmanager. In HA, each Grafana instance will
# be assigned a position (e.g. 0, 1). We then multiply this position with the timeout to indicate how long should
# each instance wait before sending the notification to take into account replication lag.
# The interval string is a possibly signed sequence of decimal numbers, followed by a unit suffix (ms, s, m, h, d), e.g. 30s or 1m.
;ha_peer_timeout = "15s"
# The interval between sending gossip messages. By lowering this value (more frequent) gossip messages are propagated
# across cluster more quickly at the expense of increased bandwidth usage.
# The interval string is a possibly signed sequence of decimal numbers, followed by a unit suffix (ms, s, m, h, d), e.g. 30s or 1m.
;ha_gossip_interval = "200ms"
# The interval between gossip full state syncs. Setting this interval lower (more frequent) will increase convergence speeds
# across larger clusters at the expense of increased bandwidth usage.
# The interval string is a possibly signed sequence of decimal numbers, followed by a unit suffix (ms, s, m, h, d), e.g. 30s or 1m.
;ha_push_pull_interval = "60s"
# Enable or disable alerting rule execution. The alerting UI remains visible. This option has a legacy version in the `[alerting]` section that takes precedence.
;execute_alerts = true
# Alert evaluation timeout when fetching data from the datasource. This option has a legacy version in the `[alerting]` section that takes precedence.
# The timeout string is a possibly signed sequence of decimal numbers, followed by a unit suffix (ms, s, m, h, d), e.g. 30s or 1m.
;evaluation_timeout = 30s
# Number of times we'll attempt to evaluate an alert rule before giving up on that evaluation. This option has a legacy version in the `[alerting]` section that takes precedence.
;max_attempts = 3
# Minimum interval to enforce between rule evaluations. Rules will be adjusted if they are less than this value or if they are not multiple of the scheduler interval (10s). Higher values can help with resource management as we'll schedule fewer evaluations over time. This option has a legacy version in the `[alerting]` section that takes precedence.
# The interval string is a possibly signed sequence of decimal numbers, followed by a unit suffix (ms, s, m, h, d), e.g. 30s or 1m.
;min_interval = 10s
#################################### Alerting ############################
[alerting]
# Disable legacy alerting engine & UI features
;enabled = false
# Makes it possible to turn off alert execution but alerting UI is visible
;execute_alerts = true
# Default setting for new alert rules. Defaults to categorize error and timeouts as alerting. (alerting, keep_state)
;error_or_timeout = alerting
# Default setting for how Grafana handles nodata or null values in alerting. (alerting, no_data, keep_state, ok)
;nodata_or_nullvalues = no_data
# Alert notifications can include images, but rendering many images at the same time can overload the server
# This limit will protect the server from render overloading and make sure notifications are sent out quickly
;concurrent_render_limit = 5
# Default setting for alert calculation timeout. Default value is 30
;evaluation_timeout_seconds = 30
# Default setting for alert notification timeout. Default value is 30
;notification_timeout_seconds = 30
# Default setting for max attempts to sending alert notifications. Default value is 3
;max_attempts = 3
# Makes it possible to enforce a minimal interval between evaluations, to reduce load on the backend
;min_interval_seconds = 1
# Configures for how long alert annotations are stored. Default is 0, which keeps them forever.
# This setting should be expressed as a duration. Examples: 6h (hours), 10d (days), 2w (weeks), 1M (month).
;max_annotation_age =
# Configures max number of alert annotations that Grafana stores. Default value is 0, which keeps all alert annotations.
;max_annotations_to_keep =
#################################### Annotations #########################
[annotations]
...
Maybe download a new binary and copy the new config?
Ubuntu , upgrading as per suggesstion each release, eg:-
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1
wget https://dl.grafana.com/enterprise/release/grafana-enterprise_8.3.0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana-enterprise_8.3.0_amd64.deb
Config opening -
/etc/grafana/grafana.ini
Its about a 2 yr old install @mattabrams and been upgrading since.
Not technically code savy enough to copy a new config , using VIM i would imagine i could insert the missing portion? but scared i break things…? Any easy way for a linux newb?
ok so here are a few things to try:
if you are using VIM you can keyword search.
Or use grep:
grep 'alert' /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
You can pull out every heading and inspect it / share it like this:
grep '#####' /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
You could make a backup or your ini and then try to copy/paste:
sudo cp /etc/grafana/grafana.ini /etc/grafana/grafana.ini.backup
// make your experimental edits / updates
sudo systemctl restart grafana-server
If things go sideways:
sudo rm /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
sudo cp /etc/grafana/grafana.ini.backup /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
sudo systemctl restart grafana-server
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Hi All,
I’ve been having the same issue, upgrading from 7.9 to 8.3, except now I’ve copied the Unified Alerting section from default.ini into my grafana.ini file. Set the applicable sections to enabled and disabled, restarted the grafana service, and then the server itself, but still in grafana its still showing the legacy alerting.
I’ve flushed my browser cache too.
[unified_alerting]
;enabled = true
[alerting]
;enabled = false
Can anyone assist me in troubleshooting this?
Remove the semicolon before enabled on both lines. 
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booooosh. THANKS!!