---
title: "Alert Management"
description: "TIR Alert Management sends an email, a Slack message, or a webhook request when a metric on one of your resources crosses a threshold you set."
content_type: "overview"
product: "alerts"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/alerts/"
---

# Alert Management

Alert Management tells you when a resource in your project needs attention. You define a rule, such
as "CPU Utilization is above 85 percent", and TIR notifies you when a resource that uses the rule
meets it. You can alert on an Instance, a VM, an Inference service, a Training Cluster, and a Load
Balancer. Notifications go by email, to a Slack channel, or to an external endpoint as a webhook
request.

## Where to find it

In TIR, open your project. In the side menu, under **PLATFORM SERVICES**, select **Alert
Management**. You can also reach a resource's alerts from its own page. An Instance has an **Alert**
tab, and a VM, a Training Cluster, and a Load Balancer each have an **Alerts** tab. On an Inference
service, the alerts are in the **Alerts** section of the **Settings** tab.

## How it works

Setting up alerts takes three steps:

1. Create a monitoring integration. It holds where notifications go: email addresses of project
   members, a Slack channel, or a webhook URL.
2. Create an alert. It holds the metric, the condition, and the severity, and uses one or more
   monitoring integrations.
3. Attach the alert to a running resource. The alert watches the resource from then on.

A monitoring integration can serve many alerts, and an alert can watch many resources of its kind.
Both belong to one project, and an alert also belongs to one region: it watches only resources in
that region.

## What you can do

### Set up notifications

- [Create a monitoring integration](/tir/alerts/how-to/create-a-monitoring-integration/) for email
  or a webhook.
- [Send alerts to Slack](/tir/alerts/how-to/send-alerts-to-slack/) with a webhook URL or a bot
  token.
- [Manage monitoring integrations](/tir/alerts/how-to/manage-monitoring-integrations/): view,
  update, and delete.

### Create and use alerts

- [Create an alert](/tir/alerts/how-to/create-an-alert/).
- [Attach an alert to a resource](/tir/alerts/how-to/attach-an-alert-to-a-resource/), and detach it.
- [Manage alerts](/tir/alerts/how-to/manage-alerts/): view, update, and delete.

### Understand the details

- [Alert metrics and conditions](/tir/alerts/concepts/alert-metrics-and-conditions/): the metrics
  each service offers, severity, operators, and thresholds.
- [What a notification contains](/tir/alerts/concepts/what-a-notification-contains/).
- [Webhook requests](/tir/alerts/concepts/webhook-requests/): the request and its JSON fields.

## Core terms

| Term                   | Meaning                                                                  |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Alert                  | A rule that sends a notification when a metric meets a condition.        |
| Monitoring integration | A named set of destinations for notifications: email, Slack, or webhook. |
| Alert trigger type     | The metric the alert checks, such as CPU Utilization or GPU Temperature. |
| Threshold value        | The number the metric is compared with.                                  |
| Operator               | How the metric is compared with the threshold, such as Greater Than.     |
| Severity               | The priority of the alert: **Critical**, **Warning**, or **Info**.       |

## Set up your first alert

[Get started with Alert Management](/tir/alerts/get-started/) walks through the three steps once.
For help with a missing notification, see [Troubleshooting Alert
Management](/tir/alerts/troubleshooting/alerts/). Short answers are in the [FAQ](/tir/alerts/faq/).