# Alerts being set on Grafana dashboards error'ing out
**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/alerts-being-set-on-grafana-dashboards-erroring-out/5298
**Category:** PMM 1.x
**Created:** [December 15, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alerts-being-set-on-grafana-dashboards-erroring-out/5298 "2016-12-15T10:25:59Z")
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### Author:  [@rjennings](https://forums.percona.com/u/rjennings)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alerts-being-set-on-grafana-dashboards-erroring-out/5298/1 "2016-12-15T10:25:59Z")
Sometimes they work - other times I get an error about using template names in an alert. I’m not changing anything in alert queries. I take all the defaults and just change the value that triggers the alert. Any alert that has an issue prevents the dashboard from being saved.
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### Author:  [@weber](https://forums.percona.com/u/weber)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alerts-being-set-on-grafana-dashboards-erroring-out/5298/2 "2016-12-16T04:41:08Z")
This is a new functionality in Grafana. so there could be the bugs. If you know how to reproduce the problem you may report to Grafana straight-away [url][https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues[/url]](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues%5B/url%5D)