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Add docs for metric explorer alerts (elastic#62314)
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* Add docs for metric explorer alerts

* Fix link

* Actually fix the link

* Grammar fix

Co-Authored-By: Brandon Morelli <bmorelli25@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Brandon Morelli <bmorelli25@gmail.com>
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* Seamlessly switch to view the corresponding logs, application traces or uptime information for a component.

* Create alerts based on metric thresholds for one or more components.

To get started, you need to <<xpack-metrics-getting-started, start collecting metrics data from your infrastructure>>. Then you can <<infra-ui, use the Metrics application to inspect and analyze your data>>.

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* The interval for the X Axis is set to `auto`.
The bucket size is determined by the time range.
* To use *Open in Visualize* you need access to the Visualize app.
* To use *Create alert* you need to {kibana-ref}/alerting-getting-started.html#alerting-setup-prerequisites[set up alerting].

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This opens the graph in {kibana-ref}/TSVB.html[TSVB].
From here you can save the graph and add it to a dashboard as usual.

9. You can also create an alert based on the metrics in a graph.
Choose a graph, click the *Actions* dropdown and select *Create alert*.
This opens the {kibana-ref}/defining-alerts.html[alert flyout] prefilled with mertrics from the chart.

Who's the Metrics Explorer now? You are!

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