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 ### Query
 
 Checks the status of a Prometheus query and evaluates the result of the alert.
+The warning and critical support thresholds in the common Nagios format (e.g. `~:10`).
 
 >Note: Time range values e.G. 'go_memstats_alloc_bytes_total[10s]', only the latest value will be evaluated, other values will be ignored!