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title: "Setting Up Alerts — Lemwatch Help"
description: "Configure 11 notification channels — email, push, chat, on-call, and automation tools."
canonical: "https://lemwatch.com/help/alert-setup"
source: "https://lemwatch.com"
---

# Setting Up Alerts

> Configure 11 notification channels — email, push, chat, on-call, and automation tools.

## Setting Up Alerts

 LemWatch ships **11 notification channels**. Configure global defaults in **Settings → Notifications**, then override per site if needed. See [Default vs per-site channels](https://lemwatch.com/help/default-vs-per-site-channels) for the precedence rules.

### Email & Push (All Plans)

- Email — Enabled by default. Customise event types, digest frequency, and quiet hours in Settings → Notifications .

- Browser Push — Instant OS notifications even when LemWatch isn't open. See Browser Push Notifications .

### Chat & Team Channels (Pro+)

- Slack — Incoming webhook with rich attachments. Setup

- Microsoft Teams — Workflows (Adaptive Cards) or legacy O365 connector. Setup

- Discord — Colour-coded embeds. Setup

- Telegram — Your own bot via @BotFather. Setup

- Google Chat — Space webhook. Setup

- Mattermost — Slack-compatible incoming webhook. Setup

- Rocket.Chat — Incoming integration. Setup

- ntfy.sh — Push to phone or desktop, self-hosted friendly. Setup

### On-call & Automation

- PagerDuty — Events API v2 with auto-resolve. Setup (Agency)

- Generic Webhook — JSON POST to any HTTPS endpoint. Setup

- Zapier / Make / n8n / IFTTT / Pipedream — Route alerts into any of 5,000+ apps through the Mattermost field. Recipes

- RSS — Subscribe to alerts as a feed. Setup

### Alert Severity

- Critical 🔴 — Site down, security vulnerability, SSL expired (never suppressed)

- Warning 🟡 — Performance degradation, approaching limits

- Info 🔵 — SSL renewal, check completed, maintenance ended

### Best Practices

- Set up at least two channels (e.g., email + Slack) for redundancy.

- Use quiet hours to prevent alert fatigue.

- Configure consecutive failure thresholds to avoid false positives.

- Route critical alerts to PagerDuty for on-call teams (Agency).

- Use the Send test button under each channel to verify before going live.


## Related

- [Help centre](https://lemwatch.com/help)
- [Notification Channels Overview](https://lemwatch.com/help/notification-channels-overview)
- [Default vs Per-Site Channels](https://lemwatch.com/help/default-vs-per-site-channels)
- [Slack Integration](https://lemwatch.com/help/slack-integration)
- [Discord Integration](https://lemwatch.com/help/discord-integration)
- [Lemwatch pricing](https://lemwatch.com/pricing)
- [Suppressed alerts in the inbox](https://lemwatch.com/help/alerts-inbox-suppressed)
- [How does the Alert Rules builder work?](https://lemwatch.com/help/alert-rules-builder-overview)