How to Create Your First Alert
Alerts are how Nova notifies you when something goes wrong. Unlike basic threshold alerts, Nova uses AI to reduce noise and group related signals into a single actionable notification.
Steps
Open the Alerts page
Navigate to Alerts in the left sidebar and click Create Alert Rule.
Select a data source
Choose what you want to alert on: metrics, logs, traces, or synthetic checks. Each source has its own query builder.
Write your alert condition
Define the condition that should trigger the alert. For example:
Set severity levels
Assign severity to control routing. Nova supports four levels:
- Info — logged only, no notification
- Warning — notify via Slack or email
- Critical — page the on-call engineer
- Emergency — escalate to all responders
Choose notification channels
Select one or more channels: email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, or webhook. You can set different channels per severity level.
Enable AI Noise Reduction to automatically suppress duplicate alerts and group related issues into a single incident.
Add a runbook link (optional)
Attach a runbook URL so responders immediately know what to do when the alert fires.
Save and test
Click Save Alert Rule. Use the Test button to send a sample notification and verify your routing works.
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