# Alerts for synthetic monitor

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/alerts-for-synthetic-monitor/10496>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Tags:** problems-classic\
**Created:** [January 19, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/alerts-for-synthetic-monitor/10496 "2018-01-19T09:32:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![suresh230591](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/suresh230591/32/280_2.png) [@suresh230591](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/suresh230591)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/alerts-for-synthetic-monitor/10496/1 "2018-01-19T09:32:02Z")

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Hi

Can we set a custom threshold for webcheck timeseries metrics like V **isually Complete,** **Speed  
index, Network Time, Server Time** and create alerts for those.

Apart from webcheck **Global Outage and Synthetic Monitor**  **performance threshold violation** , Is there any other alert we can set for synthetic monitor.

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**Author:** ![Philipp\_Kastner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/philipp_kastner/32/28797_2.png) [@Philipp\_Kastner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Philipp_Kastner)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/alerts-for-synthetic-monitor/10496/2 "2018-01-19T09:50:15Z")

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Hi Suresh,

currently this is not possible but it is definitely a good idea 🙂 Could you please go ahead and post this in the product ideas forum.

Thank you, Philipp

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**Author:** ![rb0c70091](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@rb0c70091](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/rb0c70091)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/alerts-for-synthetic-monitor/10496/3 "2018-01-24T08:47:09Z")

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@Phillipp K., do Dynatrace, automatically alert on any other metric? Baselines etc.

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**Author:** ![Philipp\_Kastner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/philipp_kastner/32/28797_2.png) [@Philipp\_Kastner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Philipp_Kastner)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/alerts-for-synthetic-monitor/10496/4 "2018-01-24T11:16:41Z")

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Hi Ray, the default behavior is to only alert on availability. You can configure a performance threshold for the action duration (whole test or specific steps) in the synthetic monitor settings.

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**Author:** ![rb0c70091](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@rb0c70091](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/rb0c70091)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/alerts-for-synthetic-monitor/10496/5 "2018-01-25T16:12:14Z")

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Wow we really do need that RFE. Thanks Philipp.

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**Author:** ![hannahmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@hannahmac](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/hannahmac)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/alerts-for-synthetic-monitor/10496/6 "2024-03-19T11:24:42Z")

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This can now be done using [metric events](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/platform/davis-ai/anomaly-detection/metric-events).&nbsp;You can choose the metric you would like to alert from, Synthetic metrics listed [here](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/observe-and-explore/metrics/built-in-metrics#browser)&nbsp;and then set the threshold etc on the metric events page.