How Alerts Work
Understand what alerts are and how they notify you.
An alert is a standing rule that watches one of your devices and notifies you when something specific happens — a temperature climbing too high, a tank running low, or a device dropping offline. Alerts are how rabbit | iot tells you about a problem without you having to stare at a screen.
Open them by clicking Alerts in the sidebar.
The lifecycle of an alert
- You create a rule describing the condition to watch for (see Creating Alerts).
- As new data arrives, the platform checks it against your rule.
- When the condition is met, the alert triggers:
Two kinds of alert
Alerts can watch two different kinds of thing:
- Measurement alerts fire when a reading crosses a limit (e.g. temperature above 30 °C).
- Event alerts fire when something happens to a device (e.g. it goes offline).
The difference is explained fully in Alert Conditions.
Keeping alerts under control
To avoid being flooded with notifications, alerts support:
- A cooldown — a minimum gap between repeat notifications.
- Muting — temporarily silencing an alert (for example during planned maintenance).
- Enabling / disabling — switching a rule off without deleting it.
These are covered in Managing Alerts.
Measurement alerts only fire when new data arrives. If a device stops sending data entirely, a measurement alert won't fire — but an event alert watching for device offline will. Use both for full coverage.
Creating and editing alerts requires the Owner or Administrator role. Members can view alerts but not change them. See Members & Roles.