> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.agnost.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Alerts

> Monitor important production conditions and notify the right destination

An **alert** sends important production signals to email or Slack. Custom alerts
evaluate a saved condition on a schedule. Proactive intent alerts are event-driven:
they run when Agnost discovers a new user intent, not on the scheduled alert poller.

## Slack defaults

Before Slack is connected, the Alerts page shows the available alert examples as
suggestions you can try, including **Daily Summary** and **Proactive Intent Summary**.
Connecting a Slack channel enables those two summaries by default. You can pause
or resume either summary from its alert card.

## Create an alert

Open **Alerts** in the Agnost AI sidebar, then choose a template or create a custom
condition. Configure:

* A descriptive alert name.
* The condition and threshold.
* How often Agnost AI should check it.
* Email recipients or a connected Slack channel.
* The action or investigation context recipients need.

You can also open an intent or violation and choose **Alert**. Agnost AI fills in
the selected classification, keeps the counting logic fixed, and lets you set the
count threshold, lookback window, recent-message count, schedule, and destination.

## Alert design

Prefer conditions that are actionable and stable enough to avoid noise. Include
the workspace, time window, affected intent/tool/rule, supporting count, and a
direct path back to Agnost AI.

Test the alert before enabling it. Revisit thresholds after traffic or agent
behavior changes.

## Next steps

* [Intents](/using-intents): choose a user goal worth monitoring.
* [Violations](/using-violations): choose an expected rule worth monitoring.
* [Improvements](/using-improvements): investigate and address recurring conditions.


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