# Is that possible to create the alert by a) continously transactions timeout over 5 minutes; b) over 20 intermittent timeout over 15 minutes

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/is-that-possible-to-create-the-alert-by-a-continously-transactions-timeout-over-5-minutes-b-over-20-intermittent-timeout-over-15-minutes/19365>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Tags:** problems-classic\
**Created:** [May 19, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/is-that-possible-to-create-the-alert-by-a-continously-transactions-timeout-over-5-minutes-b-over-20-intermittent-timeout-over-15-minutes/19365 "2020-05-19T08:59:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![chamberlain\_cl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chamberlain\_cl](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/chamberlain_cl)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/is-that-possible-to-create-the-alert-by-a-continously-transactions-timeout-over-5-minutes-b-over-20-intermittent-timeout-over-15-minutes/19365/1 "2020-05-19T08:59:41Z")

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Is that possible to create the email alert in Dynatrace by

a) continously transactions timeout over 5 minutes, set of API with response time threshold has been defined.

b) over 20 intermittent timeout over 15 minutes, set of API with response time threshold has been defined.

Any wiki can be shared would be good

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**Author:** ![wolfgang\_beer](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/wolfgang_beer/32/14717_2.png) [@wolfgang\_beer](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/wolfgang_beer)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 10:40am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/is-that-possible-to-create-the-alert-by-a-continously-transactions-timeout-over-5-minutes-b-over-20-intermittent-timeout-over-15-minutes/19365/2 "2020-05-19T10:40:02Z")

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Hi,

You can define a threshold based event and alert if response time of a given service breaches the threshold over X minutes.

See here:

> **[Metric events](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/dynatrace-intelligence/anomaly-detection-classic/metric-events)**
>
> Learn about metric events in Dynatrace

Best greetings,

Wolfgang