Alerts, Silences, And Channels

Goal

Use OQL to define alert conditions and route notifications to the right channel.

Workflow

An alert rule contains:

• Name and enabled state
• Scope
• OQL query
• Evaluation window, cadence, and hold duration
• Condition operator and threshold
• No-data behavior
• Severity: page, warn, or info
• Channel list
• Maximum alert instances

Use silences to suppress matching alert instances for a bounded time window. Use channels to deliver notifications to webhook, Slack webhook, Discord webhook, ntfy, or SMTP email targets.

Permissions

Action	Permission
View alert rules and instances	alerts:read
Create, update, or delete rules	alerts:manage
Create or delete silences	silences:manage
View channel names and kinds	channels:read
Create, delete, or test channels	channels:manage

Related Pivots

• Open the rule’s OQL in Explore.
• Use alert scope to jump to matching logs, traces, or metrics.
• Route page severity to urgent channels and warn or info to lower-noise destinations.
• Use silences during planned deploys or known maintenance windows.