# Alerts

Alerts allow you to receive notifications in Slack or through an incoming webhook when your Workflow returns an error.

## How To Create An Alert

To create an alert, follow these steps:

1. Publish your Workflow in order to create an alert
2. Click **Monitor > Alerts**
3. Click **Add Alert**
4. Name your alert
5. Choose the Workflows you want to be notified about
6. Choose how you want to be notified:
   * To receive the alert through an incoming Webhook: Click **Add** **Action >** **Webhook** and provide the URL where you will receive a POST request with the data of the error
   * To receive the alert through Slack: click on **Add Action > Slack** and select the Slack channel where you want to receive notifications

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### Slack Action

When an alert containing a Slack action is triggered, the Slack action sends a message to the selected channel including the Workflow name, error message, and a link to the execution:

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### Webhook Action

When an alert containing a Webhook action is triggered, the Webhook action sends a **POST** request to the selected url, with a **JSON** body containing metadata about the errored execution, such as Workflow, Execution id, error message, and more:

```json
{
  "status": "error",
  "id": 72367362,
  "source": "web",
  "user_id": 9000,
  "airops_app_id": 9999,
  "output": null,
  "error_code": "SENSITIVE_CONTENT",
  "error_message": "Content contains sensitive data"
}
```


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