Commands

Alerting & events

Unified alerting resources, silences, notification routing, and annotations.

Alert rules

grafana alert rule list --folder <folder-uid> --group "High CPU" -o json
grafana alert rule get <rule-uid> -o json
grafana alert rule create -f rule.json
grafana alert rule update <rule-uid> -f updated-rule.yaml
grafana alert rule delete <rule-uid> --confirm

Notification routing

grafana alert contact-point list -o json
grafana alert contact-point create -f contact-point.json

grafana alert policy get -o json
grafana alert policy update -f policy.json
grafana alert policy reset --confirm

alert policy update replaces the entire policy tree. Read the current tree with grafana alert policy get -o json before updating it.

Silences, mute timings, and templates

grafana alert silence list -o json
grafana alert silence create -f silence.json
grafana alert silence delete <silence-id> --confirm

grafana alert mute-timing list -o json
grafana alert mute-timing get "weekends" -o json

grafana alert template list -o json
grafana alert template update "on-call" -f template.json

Annotations

grafana annotation list --tags deploy,production --limit 100 -o json
grafana annotation list --from 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z --to 2026-07-02T00:00:00Z -o json
grafana annotation create -f annotation.json
grafana annotation tags --tag deploy -o json

Annotation time filters accept RFC3339, Unix seconds, epoch milliseconds, or epoch nanoseconds.

Dashboards & data

Dashboards, folders, datasources, queries, library elements, and correlations.

Access & automation

Organizations, users, teams, service accounts, and service account tokens.

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Alert rules Notification routing Silences, mute timings, and templates Annotations