# Create an anomaly alert

Monitor anomalies to detect when a metric is behaving differently than it has in the past, accounting for trends and seasonal day-of-week and time-of-day patterns.

To create an anomaly metric alert, see the instructions in [Create a metric alert](https://docs.kloudfuse.com/platform/3.2.5/alerts-create-metric/).

Specifically,

- In task  Choose the detection method](https://docs.kloudfuse.com/platform/3.2.5/alerts-create-metric/#detection), select  ( [Anomaly Detection](https://docs.kloudfuse.com/platform/3.2.5/alerts-create-metric/#anomaly-pick)).

- In task  Set condition](https://docs.kloudfuse.com/platform/3.2.5/alerts-create-metric/#condition), specify [anomaly](https://docs.kloudfuse.com/platform/3.2.5/alerts-create-metric/#anomaly) conditions.