# Grafana Alert Time Stamps in Summary

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-alert-time-stamps-in-summary/67716>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Tags:** alerting\
**Created:** [June 24, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-alert-time-stamps-in-summary/67716 "2022-06-24T18:55:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![mlyszyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mlyszyk](https://community.grafana.com/u/mlyszyk)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-alert-time-stamps-in-summary/67716/1 "2022-06-24T18:55:55Z")

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I was curious if it was possible to customize the alert rules to include a time stamp when a service/device has gone down. For example using probe\_succes, the email would have "Firewall Houston @ 172.65.24.9 has gone down at xx:xx:xx am/pm on month/date/year.

Overall, any ideas on how to include time stamps and other “add-ons” to have alerts be more detailed and accurate. Also, how do you have the hyperlinks in the emails like “Silence Alert” direct you to your dashboard and not community.grafana.com?

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**Author:** ![anon70503803](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@anon70503803](https://community.grafana.com/u/anon70503803)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-alert-time-stamps-in-summary/67716/2 "2022-06-27T21:46:58Z")

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welcome to the :grafana: forum, @mlyszyk

you might want to explore alert message templating. It can be very powerful and dynamic:

> **[Notification templating | Grafana documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rules/message-templating/)**
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> Notification templating