# Alerting **URL:** \ **Category:** PMM 1.x\ **Created:** [August 17, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alerting/6517 "2018-08-17T03:29:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![karl\_drogo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5e925/32.png) [@karl\_drogo](https://forums.percona.com/u/karl_drogo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alerting/6517/1 "2018-08-17T03:29:48Z")
PMM is incredible, I love it… except, I don’t understand how alerting is supposed to work. I try to set an alert up, and I get: “Template variables are not supported in alert queries”. Also – it seems if I want my alerts to persist after upgrading PMM, I need to create a copy of the dashboard. I read this post: [url][https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/02/02/pmm-alerting-with-grafana-working-with-templated-dashboards/[/url]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/02/02/pmm-alerting-with-grafana-working-with-templated-dashboards/%5B/url%5D) I’m wondering if there has been progress made since that post was made or if I just need to try to re-read that post and wrap my head around it. ---
**Author:** ![lorraine.pocklington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/lorraine.pocklington/32/37_2.png) [@lorraine.pocklington](https://forums.percona.com/u/lorraine.pocklington)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alerting/6517/2 "2018-08-17T03:53:55Z")
Thank you for your comments, appreciated. Telling us you love PMM will always get our attention. 😃 What version of PMM are you running? Are you familiar with our demo site [url][Grafana](https://pmmdemo.percona.com/graph/d/Fxvd1timk/home-dashboard?orgId=1%5B/url%5D) Take a look at that and see if there’s a view/set up that you are interested in and we can maybe help you achieve it. Meanwhile, though, I will bring this to the attention of the team in case they have some other useful information they can provide. ---
**Author:** ![karl\_drogo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5e925/32.png) [@karl\_drogo](https://forums.percona.com/u/karl_drogo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alerting/6517/3 "2018-08-17T13:17:31Z")
Thanks for the quick reply. I’m running 1.13.0. Will check out the demo site, was not familiar with it. ---
**Author:** ![lorraine.pocklington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/lorraine.pocklington/32/37_2.png) [@lorraine.pocklington](https://forums.percona.com/u/lorraine.pocklington)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alerting/6517/4 "2018-08-17T13:18:57Z")
OK, any problems just shout. We may not get to it over the weekend though…