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title: Alerting overview
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# Alerting Overview
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Alerting with Prometheus is separated into two parts. Alerting rules in
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Prometheus servers send alerts to an Alertmanager. The [Alertmanager](alertmanager.md)
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then manages those alerts, including silencing, inhibition, aggregation and
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sending out notifications via methods such as email, on-call notification systems, and chat platforms.
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The main steps to setting up alerting and notifications are:
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* Setup and [configure](configuration.md) the Alertmanager
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* [Configure Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#alertmanager_config) to talk to the Alertmanager
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* Create [alerting rules](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/alerting_rules/) in Prometheus
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