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# Alerting

Alerting in Yandex Monitoring allows notifying cloud users of changes to metrics. For example, you can get alerted about a change in your cloud resource's status and deal with it before it is too late.

Alerting tracks changes to certain metrics using [alerts](alerting/alert.md) and sends notifications via a [notification channel](alerting/notification-channel.md).