# Best practices for managing alerts

## Ensure Alerts are meaningful and actionable

Set up alerts that are meaningful and actionable.

Consider the impact of having an alert configuration in your system with the following characteristics:

1. Alerts are being constantly triggered.
2. Alerts resolve themselves before someone can take action.
3. Alerts don’t provide information on what the problem is.
4. Alerts are a result of a problem that cannot be addressed by the team.

These situations inevitably results in your team ignoring ALL the alerts. Therefore, exercise good judgement in designing and implementing your alerting framework.

### Add links to the Alert

You can add links to an Alert to associate it with documentation that helps to troubleshoot the issue. Kloudfuse provides several options:

- Link to a Runbook: Create and maintain instructions on how to proceed when the alert is triggered.
- Link a Dashboard: To help with troubleshooting, associate a Dashboard with the Alert.
- Link a Panel: Especially useful when working with large dashboards, link the alert to a specific panel in the Dashboard.