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title: "Creating Alarms in Elastic"
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# Creating Alarms in Elastic

Alerting is configured and managed from the Kibana Management UI and provides a set of built-in rule types and connectors. Alerting allows the user to detect conditions defined by a rule. When that condition is met, the alert is created and triggers any actions configured within the rule.

In most cases, rules will be based on log, metric, and monitoring thresholds.

- Log threshold - Create alarms based on conditions met from the Logs app. Alerts can be created from Observability > Logs
- Metric Threshold - Create alarms based on what is listed on the Metrics Explorer page with the Metric app, Observability > Metrics
- Monitoring Threshold - Create alarms based on uptime. Observability > Uptime

For example, to create a monitoring alarm for an existing URL monitored with Uptime

1. Navigate to the Uptime app: Observability > Uptime
2. At the top of the page, click Alerts and rules > Create rule > Monitor status rule

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3. If multiple http monitors exist, and want add a filter using KQL syntax, you can use the monitor.name field and provide the name of the uptime monitor

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4. Update the Status Check by clicking on the conditions and selecting the values best suitable for this alarm

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5. Configure Actions with the supported built-in integrations.

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