diff --git a/rules/alerting.go b/rules/alerting.go
index e43867e82..1872c948b 100644
--- a/rules/alerting.go
+++ b/rules/alerting.go
@@ -200,9 +200,9 @@ func (rule *AlertingRule) HTMLSnippet() template.HTML {
 	}
 	return template.HTML(fmt.Sprintf(
 		`ALERT <a href="%s">%s</a> IF <a href="%s">%s</a> FOR %s WITH %s`,
-		ConsoleLinkForExpression(alertMetric.String()),
+		GraphLinkForExpression(alertMetric.String()),
 		rule.name,
-		ConsoleLinkForExpression(rule.Vector.String()),
+		GraphLinkForExpression(rule.Vector.String()),
 		rule.Vector,
 		utility.DurationToString(rule.holdDuration),
 		rule.Labels))
diff --git a/rules/helpers.go b/rules/helpers.go
index b883e4b19..0f9ffe4bb 100644
--- a/rules/helpers.go
+++ b/rules/helpers.go
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ func newLabelMatcher(matchTypeStr string, name clientmodel.LabelName, value clie
 	return metric.NewLabelMatcher(matchType, name, value)
 }
 
-func ConsoleLinkForExpression(expr string) string {
+func TableLinkForExpression(expr string) string {
 	// url.QueryEscape percent-escapes everything except spaces, for which it
 	// uses "+". However, in the non-query part of a URI, only percent-escaped
 	// spaces are legal, so we need to manually replace "+" with "%20" after
@@ -142,3 +142,8 @@ func ConsoleLinkForExpression(expr string) string {
 	urlData := url.QueryEscape(fmt.Sprintf(`[{"expr":%q,"tab":1}]`, expr))
 	return fmt.Sprintf("/graph#%s", strings.Replace(urlData, "+", "%20", -1))
 }
+
+func GraphLinkForExpression(expr string) string {
+	urlData := url.QueryEscape(fmt.Sprintf(`[{"expr":%q}]`, expr))
+	return fmt.Sprintf("/graph#%s", strings.Replace(urlData, "+", "%20", -1))
+}
diff --git a/rules/manager/manager.go b/rules/manager/manager.go
index ae3d29e43..b69546d8a 100644
--- a/rules/manager/manager.go
+++ b/rules/manager/manager.go
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ func (m *ruleManager) queueAlertNotifications(rule *rules.AlertingRule, timestam
 			Value:        aa.Value,
 			ActiveSince:  aa.ActiveSince.Time(),
 			RuleString:   rule.String(),
-			GeneratorUrl: m.prometheusUrl + rules.ConsoleLinkForExpression(rule.Vector.String()),
+			GeneratorUrl: m.prometheusUrl + rules.GraphLinkForExpression(rule.Vector.String()),
 		})
 	}
 	m.notifications <- notifications
diff --git a/rules/recording.go b/rules/recording.go
index 881407a29..9f5695892 100644
--- a/rules/recording.go
+++ b/rules/recording.go
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@ func (rule RecordingRule) HTMLSnippet() template.HTML {
 	ruleExpr := rule.vector.String()
 	return template.HTML(fmt.Sprintf(
 		`<a href="%s">%s</a>%s = <a href="%s">%s</a>`,
-		ConsoleLinkForExpression(rule.name),
+		GraphLinkForExpression(rule.name),
 		rule.name,
 		rule.labels,
-		ConsoleLinkForExpression(ruleExpr),
+		GraphLinkForExpression(ruleExpr),
 		ruleExpr))
 }
 
diff --git a/templates/templates.go b/templates/templates.go
index 2a1f11e3a..167554c15 100644
--- a/templates/templates.go
+++ b/templates/templates.go
@@ -129,8 +129,10 @@ func NewTemplateExpander(text string, name string, data interface{}, timestamp c
 			"safeHtml": func(text string) html_template.HTML {
 				return html_template.HTML(text)
 			},
-			"match": regexp.MatchString,
-			"title": strings.Title,
+			"match":     regexp.MatchString,
+			"title":     strings.Title,
+			"graphLink": rules.GraphLinkForExpression,
+			"tableLink": rules.TableLinkForExpression,
 			"sortByLabel": func(label string, v queryResult) queryResult {
 				sorter := queryResultByLabelSorter{v[:], label}
 				sort.Stable(sorter)
diff --git a/templates/templates_test.go b/templates/templates_test.go
index 08917acd7..23e9babb3 100644
--- a/templates/templates_test.go
+++ b/templates/templates_test.go
@@ -137,6 +137,16 @@ func TestTemplateExpansion(t *testing.T) {
 			text:   "{{ match \"a+\" \"aa\" }} {{ match \"a+\" \"b\" }}",
 			output: "true false",
 		},
+		{
+			// graphLink.
+			text:   "{{ graphLink \"up\" }}",
+			output: "/graph#%5B%7B%22expr%22%3A%22up%22%7D%5D",
+		},
+		{
+			// tableLink.
+			text:   "{{ tableLink \"up\" }}",
+			output: "/graph#%5B%7B%22expr%22%3A%22up%22%2C%22tab%22%3A1%7D%5D",
+		},
 	}
 
 	time := clientmodel.Timestamp(0)
diff --git a/web/static/js/graph.js b/web/static/js/graph.js
index 81463d1d7..4d68620c4 100644
--- a/web/static/js/graph.js
+++ b/web/static/js/graph.js
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ function parseGraphOptionsFromUrl() {
   return options;
 }
 
-// NOTE: This needs to be kept in sync with rules/helpers.go:ConsoleLinkForExpression!
+// NOTE: This needs to be kept in sync with rules/helpers.go:GraphLinkForExpression!
 function storeGraphOptionsInUrl() {
   var allGraphsOptions = [];
   for (var i = 0; i < graphs.length; i++) {