> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://cubed3-claude-gallant-ramanujan-5qg37q.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Alerts

> Get email notifications about API outages, database timeouts, and pre-aggregation build failures across your deployments.

Alerts send email notifications when a deployment has an API outage, a database
response timeout, or a pre-aggregation build fails or completes. Manage them from
**Alerts** in the account-level Admin panel.

<Note>
  Available on the [Starter plan and above](https://cube.dev/pricing).
</Note>

## Configuration

Click **New alert** and choose:

* **Event type** — one of the [event types](#event-types) below, or **All** to
  match every type.
* **For deployments** — **All** deployments on the account, or specific ones.
* **Send alerts to** — **All users on this account** or **Specific users**; you
  can also add **Custom email** addresses that aren't Cube Cloud users.

Existing alerts are listed in a table with their event type, deployments, and
recipients, and can be edited or deleted (individually or in bulk).

## Event types

| Event type                     | Triggered when                                                       |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| API outages                    | A deployment's API becomes unreachable.                              |
| Database response timeouts     | A query to the connected data source times out.                      |
| Pre-aggregation build failures | A [pre-aggregation build](/admin/monitoring/pre-aggregations) fails. |
| Build completed                | A deployment build finishes.                                         |

A pre-aggregation build failure notification links back to the pre-aggregation
and suggests [partitioning it][ref-partition-granularity] or configuring an
[export bucket][ref-export-bucket] if it's large.

[ref-partition-granularity]: /reference/data-modeling/pre-aggregations#partition_granularity

[ref-export-bucket]: /docs/pre-aggregations/using-pre-aggregations#export-bucket