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title: Create and manage alerts
description: >-
  Learn how to create and manage alerts, set warning and critical thresholds,
  and configure email, Slack, or Teams notifications.
lastUpdated: "2026-09-23"
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Alerts notify you when your tests fail repeatedly. This guide explains how to create an alert, set its thresholds, and configure notification channels.

## Interactive tutorial

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## Step-by-step guide

## Create an alert

<Steps>
  <Step title="Go to alerts">
    From the main menu, navigate to **Incidents**, then select the **Alerts** tab.
  </Step>
  <Step title="New alert">
    Click **Create an alert**, then click **Add a new alert** in the success rate alerts section.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Name the alert">
    Give your alert a clear name.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Set the analysis window">
    Set the number of last points to check. For example, **3** to only consider the last 3 executions.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Set the Warning threshold">
    Set the Warning threshold. For example, **2**: if 2 of the last 3 tests fail, a Warning alert is triggered. This threshold is optional.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Set the Critical threshold">
    Set the Critical threshold. For example, **3**: if all 3 last tests fail, a Critical alert is triggered.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Filter by product or test">
    Select a product or specific tests if the alert should not apply to the entire workspace.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Configure notifications

<Steps>
  <Step title="Email">
    Enable **Email Notification**, enter the recipient address, and click **Create option** to add it.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Slack">
    Enable **Slack Notification**, then click the link to generate a Slack webhook. Paste the webhook URL into the field.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Microsoft Teams">
    Enable **Microsoft Teams Notification**, follow the instructions to create a Teams webhook, and paste the URL into the field.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Save">
    Click **Save** to create the alert.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Edit or delete an alert

From the alerts list, click the **Actions** menu to edit or delete an existing alert.

## What's next?

<Columns cols={2}>
  <Card title="Incidents" icon="triangle-exclamation" href="/alerting/incidents">
    View and manage incidents triggered by your alerts.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Create monitors" icon="chart-line" href="/guides/monitors-create-delete">
    Set up monitors to watch your tests continuously.
  </Card>
</Columns>