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# Alert details page
This document was moved to [another location](alerts.md).
Navigate to the Alert details view by visiting the
[Alert list](./alerts.md) and selecting an alert from the
list. You need least Developer [permissions](../../user/permissions.md) to access
alerts.
TIP: **Tip:**
To review live examples of GitLab alerts, visit the
You can configure an externally-managed Prometheus instance to send alerts
You can configure an externally-managed Prometheus instance to send alerts
to GitLab. To set up this configuration, read the [configuring Prometheus](../metrics/alerts.md#external-prometheus-instances) documentation. Activating the external Prometheus
For GitLab-managed Prometheus instances, metrics data is available for the
alert, making it easy to see surrounding behavior. For information about
setting up alerts, see [Managed Prometheus instances](../metrics/alerts.md#managed-prometheus-instances).
For externally-managed Prometheus instances, you can configure your alerting
rules to display a chart in the alert. For information about how to configure
your alerting rules, see [Embedding metrics based on alerts in incident issues](../metrics/embed.md#embedding-metrics-based-on-alerts-in-incident-issues). See