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# Alerting

Monium's alerting feature sends metric update notifications. 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 monitors particular metrics for changes using [alerts](alerting/alert.md) and serves notifications via your [notification channel](alerting/notification-channel.md) or [escalation policy](alerting/escalations.md).