How to change the name or interval of an existing evaluation group?

  • I’m using the hosted Grafana instance at gopuff.grafana.net. I don’t see a version number in the UI but would be happy to add that if someone can tell me where to find it.

  • What are you trying to achieve? - I create an evaluation group with “5m” in the group name, but mistakenly set the interval to 1m. Then I used that group for a bunch of rules that should have 5m evaluation intervals. I’d like to change the group’s interval to 5m so that all of those rules will have the schedule they deserve.

  • How are you trying to achieve it? - I’m hunting around in the Grafana web UI looking for a way to change a group’s name or interval, or find a list of alerts that use a given evaluation group, and I’m not finding any of that.

  • What happened? - I made a mistake and I’m trying to fix it.

  • What did you expect to happen? - I expected to find UI to correct my mistake.

  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with? - I can post a screenshot from the rule editing UI if that would help.

  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? n/a

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL? - I looked for some, but didn’t find any.

Hi, I think (almost sure of that) that you can go to the Alert Rules (ctrl/cmd + k, type in “alert rules”) page (where all your alerts are), and there you’ll have the list of all alert groups. On the right side of each row there will be a pencil icon. Click on that and an edit modal will appear.

If you’re not seeing that, can you provide the screen of alert rules page?

That led me to it, thanks! And I just noticed that the group names are clickable in the alert list UI.

I haven’t seen those pages in a very long time because I’ve been managing alerts via the alert-rules tab on my team’s dashboard folder. That’s been my go-to page for alerts for so long that I forgot that the other UI existed.