# Is alertname a reserved label?

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/is-alertname-a-reserved-label/72448>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Tags:** alerting\
**Created:** [September 15, 2022, 10:15am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/is-alertname-a-reserved-label/72448 "2022-09-15T10:15:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![andreaspelzer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/andreaspelzer/32/26103_2.png) [@andreaspelzer](https://community.grafana.com/u/andreaspelzer)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 10:15am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/is-alertname-a-reserved-label/72448/1 "2022-09-15T10:15:19Z")

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After upgrading from community version from 8.1.1 to 9.1.4, many warnings like

`level=warn msg="rule declares one or many reserved labels. Those rules labels will be ignored" labels="alertname=View refreshing"`

are displayed in the log. It seems that “alertname” has become a reserved label, however I cannot find any documentation on this, e.g. on [Grafana Reserved Labels](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/fundamentals/annotation-label/how-to-use-labels/#grafana-reserved-labels). Can you bring any light on this? Would it be safe to remove the labels?

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**Author:** ![links2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@links2004](https://community.grafana.com/u/links2004)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/is-alertname-a-reserved-label/72448/2 "2022-09-18T13:04:56Z")

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noticed the same in my setup after migration a lot of warnings like this.

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**Author:** ![marcbtremblay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@marcbtremblay](https://community.grafana.com/u/marcbtremblay)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/is-alertname-a-reserved-label/72448/3 "2022-09-19T15:02:18Z")

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I’m seeing the same thing. Unsure if I should just remove the labels.

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**Author:** ![andreaspelzer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/andreaspelzer/32/26103_2.png) [@andreaspelzer](https://community.grafana.com/u/andreaspelzer)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/is-alertname-a-reserved-label/72448/4 "2022-09-26T12:56:18Z")

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Related to [9.1.6 warn - rule declares one or many reserved labels. Those rules labels will be ignored · Issue #55670 · grafana/grafana · GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/55670)