ERROR:-Template variables are not supported in alert queries

[ivanahuckova]

Hello ravicdac4! You can find more information on this issue here:

Template variables are not supported in alert queries

While setting alarm for CPU usage in grafana, facing below error [image] Please help me

"Template variables are not supported in alert queries" while setting up Alert

Template variables just need a flag to be able to say “The alarm for this variable is not important”, i.e. because the variable is set up to show additional informational series, or filter by sections of data that wouldn’t matter for an alarm, but does matter for the user (i.e. show the CPU usage while a specific analytics process was running, but I still want an alarm on my CPU usage, from the same chart - it’s not friendly to say "well I can give you a big picture of everything on this chart, …

Also, there is a long discussion on why alerting with template variable is difficult and maybe not what people actually want:

• https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6557#issuecomment-324332718
• https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6557#issuecomment-324350123