Get push notifications from Grafana alerts

To get Grafana alerts on your phone, create a Webhook contact point in Grafana Alerting that points at your Hook.Notifier URL, then attach it to your notification policy. A firing alert lands on your phone as a native push notification.

Grafana is great at spotting the problem. Turning that into a phone push usually means a paid integration. Hook.Notifier is a free last mile.

Create the webhook contact point

1. In Grafana, go to Alerting → Contact points → Add contact point.
2. Set the integration to Webhook.
3. In URL, paste your Hook.Notifier URL with a title and body:

https://hooknotifier.com/{IDENTIFIER}/{KEY}?object=Grafana%20alert&body=A%20rule%20is%20firing&tags=monitoring&priority=high

4. Save, then use Test to send yourself a sample push.
5. In Notification policies, route the alerts you care about to this contact point.

First get your URL

Your Hook.Notifier URL is https://hooknotifier.com/{IDENTIFIER}/{KEY}. Create a free account to get yours, then paste it into the contact point.

Separate warnings from incidents

Not every alert deserves the same loudness. Route by severity to different tags and priorities:

• Warnings: tags=warning and priority=normal (waits for your quiet hours).
• Critical incidents: tags=incident and priority=critical (wakes you).

That way a slow-burning warning stays quiet at night while a page-worthy incident cuts through.

Why it matters

Dashboards are where problems live until someone looks. An alert that pushes to your phone means you look because it found you, not the other way around. One webhook contact point gives Grafana that reach, for free.

New to this? Start with how to send yourself a native push notification, or see the same idea for when your website goes down.