Alerting

/əˈlɜːr.tɪŋ/

noun — "the system’s way of screaming at you before things go wrong."

Alerting in information technology is the process of notifying administrators, operators, or systems about abnormal conditions, failures, or threshold breaches in IT infrastructure, applications, or services. It enables rapid response to incidents, helping maintain uptime, reliability, and security.

Technically, Alerting involves: