> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://infisical.com/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create alert > Create an alert that notifies its channels when an event happens to a resource. ## OpenAPI ````yaml POST /api/v1/alerts openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: Infisical API description: List of all available APIs that can be consumed version: 0.0.1 servers: - url: https://us.infisical.com description: Production server (US) - url: https://eu.infisical.com description: Production server (EU) - url: http://localhost:8080 description: Local server security: [] paths: /api/v1/alerts: post: tags: - Alerting description: >- Create an alert that notifies its channels when an event happens to a resource. operationId: createAlert requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: name: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 255 description: The name of the alert. description: type: string maxLength: 1000 description: The description of the alert. resourceType: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 255 description: >- The type of resource the alert watches, for example `cert-manager.application`. resourceId: type: string format: uuid nullable: true description: >- The ID of the resource the alert watches. Set to null to watch every resource of this type, where the resource type supports it. eventType: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 255 description: >- The event that triggers the alert, for example `cert-manager.application.certificate.expiry`. condition: description: >- The settings of the alert's event, for example `alertBefore` on an expiry event. The accepted fields depend on `eventType`. enabled: type: boolean description: Whether the alert is enabled. Defaults to true. projectId: type: string format: uuid nullable: true description: >- The ID of the project to create the alert in. Optional when the resource belongs to a project. channels: type: array items: type: object properties: name: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 255 channelType: type: string enum: - email - slack - webhook - pagerduty config: type: object additionalProperties: {} default: {} enabled: type: boolean recipients: type: array items: type: object properties: principalType: type: string enum: - user - group - email - project-members principalId: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 255 required: - principalType - principalId additionalProperties: false maxItems: 20 required: - name - channelType additionalProperties: false minItems: 1 maxItems: 10 description: >- The channels the alert notifies. Each is email, Slack, webhook, or PagerDuty. required: - name - resourceType - eventType - channels additionalProperties: false responses: '200': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: alert: type: object properties: id: type: string format: uuid name: type: string description: type: string nullable: true resourceType: type: string resourceId: type: string nullable: true eventType: type: string triggerType: type: string condition: nullable: true enabled: type: boolean orgId: type: string projectId: type: string nullable: true resourceName: type: string nullable: true filters: type: object additionalProperties: type: array items: type: object properties: id: type: string name: type: string nullable: true required: - id - name additionalProperties: false description: >- The resources named in the alert's condition, such as applications, certificate profiles, and signers, each as `{ id, name }`. `name` is null for a deleted resource. channels: type: array items: type: object properties: id: type: string format: uuid name: type: string channelType: type: string enabled: type: boolean config: type: object additionalProperties: {} recipients: type: array items: type: object properties: principalType: type: string principalId: type: string required: - principalType - principalId additionalProperties: false required: - id - name - channelType - enabled - config - recipients additionalProperties: false lastRun: type: object properties: timestamp: type: string format: date-time status: type: string enum: - success - partial - failed required: - timestamp - status additionalProperties: false nullable: true createdAt: type: string format: date-time updatedAt: type: string format: date-time required: - id - name - description - resourceType - resourceId - eventType - triggerType - enabled - orgId - projectId - channels - createdAt - updatedAt additionalProperties: false required: - alert additionalProperties: false '400': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: reqId: type: string statusCode: type: number enum: - 400 message: type: string error: type: string details: {} required: - reqId - statusCode - message - error additionalProperties: false '401': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: reqId: type: string statusCode: type: number enum: - 401 message: type: string error: type: string required: - reqId - statusCode - message - error additionalProperties: false '403': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: reqId: type: string statusCode: type: number enum: - 403 message: type: string details: {} error: type: string required: - reqId - statusCode - message - error additionalProperties: false '404': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: reqId: type: string statusCode: type: number enum: - 404 message: type: string error: type: string required: - reqId - statusCode - message - error additionalProperties: false '422': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: reqId: type: string statusCode: type: number enum: - 422 message: {} error: type: string required: - reqId - statusCode - error additionalProperties: false '500': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: reqId: type: string statusCode: type: number enum: - 500 message: type: string error: type: string required: - reqId - statusCode - message - error additionalProperties: false ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.