[Grafana Alerts] How to circumvent this issue?

[himuura]

• What Grafana version are you using?
  8.0.2

• What IBM APM datasource version are you using and how you installed it (git clone/downloaded git release/grafana-cli) ?
  Git Clone (0.9.1)

• What OS are you running grafana on?
  RHEL 7

• What did you do?
  Trying to create alerts on Grafana after successfully configuring the plugin.

• What was the expected result?
  Alerts should be configurable.

• What happened instead?
  In all the dashboards using the IBM APM datasource i have the message in the Alert section "The datasource does not support alerting queries"

[rafal-szypulka]

Only backend data sources support alerting: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/unified-alerting/?pg=docs#alert-evaluation This plugin is not a backend data source.