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# Alert Channels

> Get notified when your monitors change state

Alert channels send notifications when a monitor transitions to `down`, `degraded`, or `up`. Each channel is configured per organization and can be attached to any number of monitors.

## Supported channel types

### Email

Sends a plain-text email to one or more recipients via Resend (or SMTP fallback).

**Configuration:**

| Field               | Description                            |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| **Recipient email** | The address that receives alert emails |

### Slack

Posts a message to a Slack channel via an Incoming Webhook.

**Configuration:**

| Field           | Description                                                |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Webhook URL** | Slack Incoming Webhook URL (`https://hooks.slack.com/...`) |

### Discord

Posts a message to a Discord channel via a server webhook.

**Configuration:**

| Field           | Description                 |
| --------------- | --------------------------- |
| **Webhook URL** | Discord channel webhook URL |

### Webhook

Sends an HTTP request to any URL when an alert fires. Use this to integrate with PagerDuty, OpsGenie, or any custom receiver.

**Configuration:**

| Field           | Description                     |
| --------------- | ------------------------------- |
| **Webhook URL** | Target URL for the HTTP request |
| **HTTP Method** | `POST`, `GET`, or `PUT`         |

## Adding an alert channel

1. Navigate to **Alerts** in the sidebar.
2. Enter a **Channel name** and choose a **Channel type**.
3. Fill in the type-specific configuration.
4. Click **Add Channel**.

Once added, the channel is shown as an available option when creating or editing a monitor.

<Note>
  An alert channel must be **active** to appear in the monitor creation form. Inactive channels are excluded automatically.
</Note>