# Alerting

A step of the [Cloud application](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application) tree on Gradus, in the Observability area: Logs, metrics, traces, alerts.

Page: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/alerting

Define alert rules on the golden signals and route them to whoever is on call when a threshold is crossed.

Usually comes after: [Distributed tracing](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/distributed-tracing).

Leads to: [On-call & runbooks](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/on-call-and-runbooks).

## Prompt for your AI assistant

```
Define alerting rules based on the existing metrics (error rate, latency, saturation) and configure routing to an on-call notification channel when thresholds are breached.
```

Every step of the tree: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/llms.txt