> Alerting is only available in Grafana v4.0 and above.
The alert engine publish some internal metrics about itself. You can read more about how Grafana published [interal metrics](/installation/configuration/#metrics)
Description | Type | Metric name
---------- | ----------- | ----------
Total number of alerts | counter | `alerting.active_alerts`
Alert execution result | counter | `alerting.result`
Notifications sent counter | counter | `alerting.notifications_sent`