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Alerts and notifications

About 5 minUpdated 2026-10-28

Where to see alerts

The top of the panel shows "N alerts active". Click it to see recent alerts and their subjects (nodes, sites, certificates and so on). A "recovered" message is sent when the problem is gone.

Alert rules (administrators)

Administrators set alert rules under Security Center › Protection settings › Alerts, for example node offline, memory threshold, attack alerts, certificate expiry and a stalled business-database backup. Each rule has an adjustable threshold and can be enabled or disabled.

Tip Run the default rules for a week, then tune thresholds to what you see, so you don't get so many alerts that nobody reads them.

Message subscriptions

Go to Account Center › Message Subscriptions to choose which messages you receive and through which channel. Account Center › Message History lets you look back at sent messages.

Channels (email, SMS and so on) are configured by the administrator in the system settings; channels that aren't configured can't be selected here.

Expiry reminders

From 7 days before the license, WAF Plus, WAF Rules Update or IP geolocation expires, a reminder is sent once a day.

Caution If an alert channel is broken, no notification arrives at all. After configuring it, send a test message to confirm it gets through.

For an attack alert, start with the attack log.