⚡ Alert Rules
Alert rules define who gets notified when an incident occurs. They connect monitors to contacts.
🔧 How Alert Rules Work
Monitor Goes Down → Incident Created → Alert Rules Evaluated → Contacts Notified
Each alert rule specifies:
- Which monitor (or all monitors)
- Which contacts or contact groups to notify
- Under what conditions (severity threshold, time of day, etc.)
📖 Default Behavior
If no alert rules are configured, Monitron falls back to notifying all team contacts for every incident. This ensures you always get alerts, even before you set up rules.
💡 Conseils
- Start simple — create one rule that notifies everyone for all incidents.
- Then refine: create specific rules for critical monitors → on-call team, and lower-priority monitors → email only.
- Use contact groups to manage who gets notified as a unit (e.g., "On-Call Team", "Management").