Hello! I’m trying to setup notifications for loki source and the same query that works in “Explore” window doesn’t work in “Alert rules” window, I couldn’t find any info on this on the internet So the query is {container="jetton-backend"} | json | status_code > 400 Here it is working in explore […

[image] georgerobinson: Grafana Alerting works on numeric data, and Loki alerts are expected to use count or count_over_time. This is key point. The error input data must be a wide series but got type long occurs because the query is returning a set of logs, not numeric or time series data t…

Failed to evaluate queries and expressions: input data must be a wide series but got type long (input refid)

Grafana Alerting

grant2 November 23, 2023, 11:50am 10

Looks like Microsoft SQL to me.

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Failed to evaluate queries and expressions: input data must be a wide series but got type long (input refid)

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