# Grafana alert feature is not working and throwing the error message “The data source does not support alerting queries”

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**Category:** openHistorian\
**Created:** [June 10, 2020, 1:43am UTC](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/t/grafana-alert-feature-is-not-working-and-throwing-the-error-message-the-data-source-does-not-support-alerting-queries/698 "2020-06-10T01:43:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![logesaustralia](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/user_avatar/discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/logesaustralia/32/514_2.png) [@logesaustralia](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/u/logesaustralia)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 2:53am UTC](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/t/grafana-alert-feature-is-not-working-and-throwing-the-error-message-the-data-source-does-not-support-alerting-queries/698/17 "2020-06-19T02:53:00Z")

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Hi Stephen,

Earlier I used VariableList={x = PPA:20274};, but it was keep sending the email, more than 1500 per events.

Ritchi suggested to use  
VariableList={x = AL-HIGH:ABCX!TP!ABC:FREQ; y = PPA:20274};  
But I’m getting initialization error.

Is there any problem with openHistorian 2.6.x?

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