ClickStack Demo Day (2026-09-04) - Alerts without a saved search or dashboard

Every alert used to need something behind it: a saved search for logs, or a dashboard tile for metrics. That doesn't scale for anyone migrating a large set of rules across, and it's the blocker for customers moving a thousand or more Grafana alert rules over. Inline alerts remove the requirement. There's a Create alert action in the chart explorer's action bar, so you can build a chart on metrics or events and alert on it directly without saving anything first. You can also create an inline alert from the alerts page itself, which is the path to take when you specifically don't want the alert tied to a saved search or dashboard. An inline alert persists its own chart config on the alert document, in the exact shape a dashboard tile stores, so it evaluates through the same code path as tile alerts rather than a parallel one. It supports the builder and raw SQL, on line, stacked bar and number displays. PromQL is not supported. The same source is accepted by the external v2 API and the MCP save_alert tool, so alerts can be created programmatically at scale too. Part of the ClickStack Demo Day series. See the full post at https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clickstack/demo-days/2026/2026-09-04