---
title: "Set up alerts"
description: "Attach an alert to a running TIR Load Balancer so email, Slack, or a webhook warns you when one of its metrics crosses the alert's limit."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "tir-load-balancer"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/tir-load-balancer/how-to/set-up-alerts/"
topic: ["monitor"]
---

# Set up alerts

Attach an alert to a Load Balancer to be warned about its traffic, errors, and health.
When the alert fires, the monitoring integrations set on it get email, Slack, or webhook messages.

## Before you begin

- A Load Balancer in the **Running** state. An alert attaches only while the Load Balancer is running.
- An alert made for the **Load Balancer** resource type, in the same project and region as the Load
  Balancer. To make one, see [Create an alert](/tir/alerts/how-to/create-an-alert/).
- The read permission on the Load Balancer service to open the tab. See [TIR Access
  Control](/tir/tir-iam/).

## Attach an alert

1. In the side menu, under **Compute**, select **Load Balancer**, then select the Load Balancer's name.
2. Select the **Alerts** tab. Here you attach alerts you have already created to this Load Balancer.
3. Attach the alert you want. Each alert can be attached to a Load Balancer only once.

For the fields of the attach step and the list of alerts on the tab, see [Attach an alert to a
resource](/tir/alerts/how-to/attach-an-alert-to-a-resource/).

To see the figures an alert watches, read [Monitor a Load
Balancer](/tir/tir-load-balancer/how-to/monitor-a-load-balancer/). Deleting a Load Balancer also tries
to remove the alerts attached to it; see [Delete a Load
Balancer](/tir/tir-load-balancer/how-to/delete-a-load-balancer/). For help, see [Troubleshooting TIR
Load Balancer](/tir/tir-load-balancer/troubleshooting/tir-load-balancer/).