# Alerts overview

PerfectScale delivers timely and reliable alerts to keep you informed about unusual system activity and detected anomalies. These alerts are specifically designed to highlight changes in key indicators, enabling you to take quick action to address potential issues before they impact your system's efficiency, performance, or stability.

PerfectScale allows you to easily set up resiliency and financial alerts and manage them efficiently by configuring the corresponding alert profile:

* [Financial alerts configuration](/customize-workflow/alerting/financial-alerts.md)
* [Resiliency alerts configuration](/customize-workflow/alerting/resiliency-alerts.md)

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For faster updates, utilize [Slack](/customize-workflow/communication-and-messaging/slack-integration.md) or [MS Teams](/customize-workflow/communication-and-messaging/ms-teams-integration.md) integrations to receive immediate notification when an alert is generated.
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<figure><img src="/files/cECU6f7wSS7PqJ5MKIFv" alt=""><figcaption><p>Alerts screen</p></figcaption></figure>

## Alerts summary panel

This panel provides a summarized view of alerts across the account, showing the total number of active alerts along with a breakdown by category, including resilience, cost, and waste alerts.

<figure><img src="/files/0gbkT4CJeLHqQmSvRq30" alt=""><figcaption><p>Alerts summary</p></figcaption></figure>

## Alerts details panel

This panel delivers a granular breakdown of alerts, including their status, trigger details (time and location), and whether they have been acknowledged.

<figure><img src="/files/CmcS0tk2oO0C2TF0aPmK" alt=""><figcaption><p>Alerts details</p></figcaption></figure>

Use the switcher to effortlessly toggle between the [resilience](#resilience-alerts) and the financial alerts dashboards, ensuring you have quick access to both tools.

<figure><img src="/files/0XSPkNm8OLyrNTe2xgeD" alt=""><figcaption><p>Resilience/Financial alerts switcher</p></figcaption></figure>

## Workload-level alerts

Workload-level alerts are designed to trigger alerts based on a workload's specific state. Unlike standard alerts, which depend on particular conditions within a container, workload-level alerts are triggered by changes in specific workload indicators. This feature enhances alerting capabilities and introduces new types of alerts, allowing for more comprehensive monitoring and response to resiliency risks identified before they impact users.

* [**Max HPA Replicas**](/visibility-and-optimization/podfit-or-vertical-pod-right-sizing/understanding-at-risk-indicators.md#hpaatmaxreplicasobserved) - a workload-level alert indicating that the system can not scale further because the maximum configured HPA replica limit has been reached.

## The algorithm for inactive/deleting alerts

To improve visibility and highlight only relevant issues, PerfectScale uses the following algorithm to deactivate or delete irrelevant Alerts.

#### Inactive Alert

PerfectScales checks the `last seen` date of the **`Alert`**. If the `last seen > 3 days`, the **`Alert`** will be considered inactive, and its marker will be changed to grey.

<figure><img src="/files/6beA2ZaLkbDz4dh2MUUG" alt=""><figcaption><p>Inactive alert indicator</p></figcaption></figure>

#### Alert deleting

With the same scenario mentioned earlier, PerfectScales checks the `last seen` date of the **`Alert`**. If the `last seen > 29 days`, the **`Alert`** will be deleted.

## Available notification channels

For faster updates, utilize [Slack](/customize-workflow/communication-and-messaging/slack-integration.md), [MS Teams](/customize-workflow/communication-and-messaging/ms-teams-integration.md), or [Datadog](/customize-workflow/communication-and-messaging/datadog-alerts-integration.md) Integration Profiles to receive notifications when an alert is generated.


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