# Send host name with Alert **URL:** \ **Category:** Alerting\ **Created:** [January 28, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/send-host-name-with-alert/80590 "2023-01-28T15:58:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![madddogg2406](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@madddogg2406](https://community.grafana.com/u/madddogg2406)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/send-host-name-with-alert/80590/1 "2023-01-28T15:58:35Z")

Hello, I wanted to send the hostname of an alerted host with the e-mail, and I stumbled up on to use something like this in the alert description: Host: {{ $values.B0.value.labels.host }} But if an alert triggers, it will just write the literal “{{ $values.B0.value.labels.host }}” instead of the hostname. Trying just $values.B0.labels.host gave me a “\ **Author:** ![ldrascic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aca169/32.png) [@ldrascic](https://community.grafana.com/u/ldrascic)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/send-host-name-with-alert/80590/2 "2023-01-28T16:46:48Z") Hi @madddogg2406, If you are using Reduce expression in your alert try this: ```auto {{ $values.B.Labels.host }} ``` If you are using Classic condition expression try this: ```auto {{ $values.B0.Labels.host }} ``` > [@How To Use Alert Message Templates in Grafana](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-use-alert-message-templates-in-grafana/67537/129): > > Hi @rodrigoparavano, If you want to get label value from query then you can do with: {{ $values.\.Labels.\ }} For example: On server {{ $values.B.Labels.host }} port {{ $values.B.Labels.port }} is closed (not listening). would print: On server monitoringserver port 8282 is closed (not listening). > > > **Alert configuration and output** > > > > \