alerts-config.md

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Configuring alerts in {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}}

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Create an alert in {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} for early detection of anomalies, proactive incident response, or improved mean time to resolution (MTTR).

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Specify the triggering condition

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Specify the triggering condition that is evaluated against the data included for analysis for this alert.

You must define your triggering condition. Do not leave the triggering condition configuration blank or you will have all logs generating alerts. {: important}

This condition you specifies differs depending on the alert type.

Alert type	Condition configuration information
Standard alerts	Configuration information
Time relative alerts	Configuration information
Unique count alerts	Configuration information
Ratio alerts	Configuration information
New value alerts	Configuration information
Metric alerts	Configuration information
Flow alerts	Configuration information
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