Using .Graph will filter the results to only include those that match the tagset for the alert. For instance an alert for os.low.memory{host=ny-web01} would only include series with the host=ny-web01 tags. If multiple series match then only the first matching result will be used.
template graph.template {
subject = ...
body = `{{template "header" .}}
<strong>Graph</strong>
<div>{{.Graph .Alert.Vars.graph}}</div>
<strong>Graph With Y Axis Label Literal</strong>
<div>{{.Graph .Alert.Vars.graph "Free Memory in GB"}}</div>
<strong>Graph With Y Axis Label From Variable</strong>
<div>{{.Graph .Alert.Vars.graph .Alert.Vars.graph_unit}}</div>
`
}
alert os.low.memory {
template = graph.template
...
$graph = q("avg:300s-avg:os.mem.percent_free{host=$host}", "1d", "")
$graph_unit = Percent Free Memory (Including Buffers and Cache)
...
}