How to update/delete corrupted Notification Policies?

Grafana Developers & API
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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    v9.0.2

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    My Notification Policy is corrupted so I would like to delete it and start from scratch.

  • How are you trying to achieve it?
    Via Alert Provisioning API

  • What happened?
    I have create successfully a Notification Policy using the following API:

https://grafana-server/api/v1/provisioning/policies
Using PUT and the following body:

{
    "receiver": "My Alert Contact"
}

I then tried to update the Notification Policy above by using the same API but with a slightly different body:

{
    "receiver": "My Alert Contact",
    "continue": true
}

The above caused a major disaster because now:

  1. in the Grafana Web UI I get the following error: Error loading Alertmanager config
    failed to unmarshal alertmanager configuration: unable to parse Alertmanager configuration: cannot have continue in root route

  2. I don’t know how to delete or update the incorrectly created Notification Policy: everything I’ve tried came back with the following error:

{
    "message": "failed to deserialize alertmanager configuration: cannot have continue in root route",
    "traceID": "00000000000000000000000000000000"
}

In order to fix the corrupted Notication Policy I’ve tried to send:

{
    "receiver": "My Alert Contact",
    "continue":false
}

and then:

{
    "receiver": "My Alert Contact",
    "continue":null
}

finally I’ve re-tried the original command, but it no longer works either:

{
    "receiver": "My Alert Contact"
}