OpenMetadata/openmetadata-docs/content/v1.1.0/features/alerts-notifications/index.md

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title: Alerts & Notifications
slug: /features/alerts-notifications
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# Alerts & Notifications
Starting in 0.13 OpenMetadata allows users to define fine-grained notification/alerts using the **Alerts** feature. This feature replaces the Webhook that present in version 0.12 and before. It provides native integration with Slack and MS Webhook and give you the ability to send alerts using a generic webhook. It also supports the ability to send email alerts

## Creating an Alert
### Step 1
Navigate to `settings > Alerts.

Once on the alert page click on the purple button `Create alert` in the top right corner.

### Step 2
Configure you alert.

As with most configuration in OpenMetadata you will first need to add a Name and a Description for your alert. Once this is completed, you have 3 steps to configure your alert:
1. **Trigger**: this will determine how your alert should be triggered. You can select your alert to be triggered when events happen against all the existing entities or only specific ones
2. **Filter**: in this section, you can add specific event filters. The filter input will determine what type of event will trigger an alert to be sent. Setting `Allow` against a condition will result in an alert being sent if the condition is met while setting `Deny` will silence this event (i.e. alert won't be sent for the denied event).
3. **Destination**: you will determine where your alert should be sent in this section. We support 4 destinations
    - Slack
    - MS Teams
    - Email
    - Webhook

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    src="/images/v1.1.0/features/alerts-notifications/OMAlerts.gif"
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    caption="Configure OpenMetadata Alert"
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## Configuration Details for Destinations
### Slack
For Slack, you will need to get the endpoint URL of the channel where you wish to send the alerts. Additionally, you can configure the following parameters:
- **Batch Size**: size of the batch that will be sent to the endpoint.
- **Connection Timeout**: timeout for the connection.
- **Secret Key**: Secret key that can be used to secure the webhook connection.

### MS Teams
For MS Teams, you will need to get the endpoint URL of the chanel where you wish to send the alerts. You can find this by going to the Teams channel where you want the posts to appear, click on the three dots `...`, and click `Connectors`.  Then add the `Incoming Webhook` connector.  Copy this connector's URL and set it in OpenMetadata.  It may be in the form of `https://your-domain.webhook.office.com/webhookb2/...@.../IncomingWebhook/.../...`.  For more on MS Teams webhooks, see [Create an Incoming Webhook](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/webhooks-and-connectors/how-to/add-incoming-webhook). Additionally, you can configure the following parameters:
- **Batch Size**: size of the batch that will be sent to the endpoint.
- **Connection Timeout**: timeout for the connection.
- **Secret Key**: Secret key can be used to secure the webhook connection.

### Email
To enable email alerts you will need to make sure you have an SMTP server available. With the information for your SMTP server you can  configure OpenMetadata to send email alerts by updating the below section of the `openmetadata.yaml` file.

```
email:
  emailingEntity: ${OM_EMAIL_ENTITY:-"OpenMetadata"} -> Company Name (Optional)
  supportUrl: ${OM_SUPPORT_URL:-"https://slack.open-metadata.org"} -> SupportUrl (Optional)
  enableSmtpServer : ${AUTHORIZER_ENABLE_SMTP:-false} -> True/False
  openMetadataUrl: ${OPENMETADATA_SERVER_URL:-""} -> {http/https}://{your_domain}
  senderMail: ${OPENMETADATA_SMTP_SENDER_MAIL}
  serverEndpoint: ${SMTP_SERVER_ENDPOINT:-""} -> (Ex :- smtp.gmail.com)
  serverPort: ${SMTP_SERVER_PORT:-""} -> (SSL/TLS port)
  username: ${SMTP_SERVER_USERNAME:-""} -> (SMTP Server Username)
  password: ${SMTP_SERVER_PWD:-""} -> (SMTP Server Password)
  transportationStrategy: ${SMTP_SERVER_STRATEGY:-"SMTP_TLS"}
```

### Webhook
To set up a webhook you can simply use the endpoint URL where you want your alert to be sent. Additionally, you can configure the following parameters:
- **Batch Size**: size of the batch that will be sent to the endpoint.
- **Connection Timeout**: timeout for the connection.
- **Secret Key**: Secret key can be used to secure the webhook connection.