# Alert list panel
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This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support **Grafana version 9.x**.  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 12.x, see [Working in Grafana version 12](using-grafana-v12.md).  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 10.x, see [Working in Grafana version 10](using-grafana-v10.md).  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 8.x, see [Working in Grafana version 8](using-grafana-v8.md).

The alert list panel displays your dashboards alerts. You can configure the list to show current state or recent state changes. For more information about alerts, see [Alerts in Grafana version 9](v9-alerts.md).

Use these settings to refine your visualization.

## Options
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+  **Group mode** – Choose **Default grouping** to show alert instances grouped by their alert rule, or **Custom grouping** to group alert instances by a custom set of labels.
+  **Max Items** – Set the maximum number of alerts to list.
+  **Sort order** – Select how to order the alerts displayed.
  +  **Alphabetical (asc)** – Alphabetical order
  +  **Alphabetical (desc)** – Reverse alphabetical order
  +  **Importance** – By importance according to the following values, with 1 being the highest:
    + `alerting` or `firing`: 1
    + `no_data`: 2
    + `pending`: 3
    + `ok`: 4
    + `paused` or `inactive`: 5
+  **Alerts from this dashboard** – Show alerts only from the dashboard that the alert list is in.

## Filter
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Use the following options to filter the alerts to match the query, folder, or tags that you choose:
+  **Alert name** – Enter an alert name query. 
+  **Alert instance label** – Filter alert instances using label querying. For example, `{severity="critical", instance=~"cluster-us-.+"}`.
+  **Folder** – Select a folder. Only alerts from dashboards in the selected folder will be displayed.
+  **Datasource** – Filter alerts from the selected data source. 

## State filter
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Choose which alert states to display in this panel.
+ Alerting / Firing
+ Pending
+ No data
+ Normal
+ Error