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AWS grafana documentation change

Service: grafana · 2026-05-16 · Documentation low

File: grafana/latest/userguide/v12-alerting-explore-state.md

Summary

Added important note about new 500-result limit for alert rule evaluations in version 12

Security assessment

Change documents a functional limit to prevent system errors. While resource limits can indirectly prevent DoS, there's no explicit security context provided.

Diff

diff --git a/grafana/latest/userguide/v12-alerting-explore-state.md b/grafana/latest/userguide/v12-alerting-explore-state.md
index 8a16b4a43..5398dc139 100644
--- a//grafana/latest/userguide/v12-alerting-explore-state.md
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@@ -20,0 +21,4 @@ There are three key components: _alert rule state_ , _alert instance state_ , an
+###### Important
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+**Alert rule evaluation result limit** – Beginning in Grafana version 12, the number of query evaluation results per alert rule is limited to 500. If the condition query of an alert rule produces more results than this limit, the evaluation results in an error. To receive alerts when this error occurs, configure `Alert state if execution error or timeout` to `Error` under the alert rule's settings.
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