How to clean "Value" output on V9 (like previous alerting version in V8)

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How To Use Alert Message Templates in Grafana

Edited this solution to add the most common answers in this thread in one place, including template functions and labels with dots in the name - read through to the end for those welcome to the community @baileyheit1! This is a really common question and I’m still learning how to access the values out of the alert query too. I hope this is a helpful example - I tried to make it very detailed for the benefit of other community users, even though I can tell you already know how to do s…