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

**URL:** <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>\
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**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, 5:32am 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/698/28 "2020-06-19T05:32:59Z")

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Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your clarification. After setting to zero, its working as expected.  
I’m doing some more testing and will get back to you.

thanks & Regards  
Logu

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