# How do we set up event-triggered notifications or alerts?

Below you'll find a bunch of ways to set up notifications for yourself based on the data you're sending through Segment.

## Connections Alerting

Connections Alerting allows Segment users to receive in-app, email, and Slack notifications related to the performance and throughput of an event-streaming connection.

Connections Alerting allows you to create two different alerts:

* **Source volume alerts**: These alerts notify you if your source ingests an abnormally small or large amount of data. For example, if you set a change percentage of 4%, you would be notified when your source ingests less than 96% or more than 104% of the typical event volume.
* **Successful delivery rate alerts**: These alerts notify you if your destination's successful delivery rate falls outside of a percentage that you set. For example, if you set a percentage of 99%, you would be notified if you destination had a successful delivery rate of 98% or below.

For more information about Connections Alerting, see the [Connections Alerting](/docs/segment/connections/alerting) documentation.

## Google Analytics custom alerts

You can use Google Analytics Custom Alerts to send yourself emails whenever a specific traffic segment drops below (or above) a threshold you set.

Learn how to set up email alerts in [Google's documentation](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033021?hl=en).

## Analytics email summaries

With tools like Amplitude, Kissmetrics, and Mixpanel, you can set up email reports delivered to you on a daily basis. They are completely customizable, so you can keep an eye on as many events or other metrics you'd like.

* [Mixpanel email reports](https://mixpanel.com/blog/2011/04/14/email-reports/)
* [Amplitude email alerts](https://amplitude.com/blog/2015/03/20/new-features-stickiness-team-access-controls-email-alerts-redshift-playbook/)

## Realtime traffic monitoring

Chartbeat and GoSquared both offer awesome real-time dashboards to see what's happening right now on your site. They both include the option to get notified when your traffic hits a certain threshold. For example, if your on-site visitors is less than 100 people, or more than 1,000.

* [Chartbeat Spike Alerts](http://blog.chartbeat.com/2011/08/11/newsbeat-introducing-spike-alerts/)
* [GoSquared Traffic Spike Alerts](https://www.gosquared.com/customer/portal/articles/1036771-traffic-spike-alerts)

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> GoSquared also offers in-depth historical and user analysis. Chartbeat sticks to realtime anonymous traffic, but offers some sweet features for publishers.

## Webhook-based alerts

The last option Segment recommends is to use a monitoring tool like [PagerDuty](https://www.pagerduty.com/) or [Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/) and point Segment's [webhooks](/docs/segment/connections/destinations/catalog/webhooks/) destination at them. That way you can set up custom alerts in their system.

## Event-triggered emails

The last option for alerting based off of Segment events is to use one of the email tools available on the Segment platform that offers event-triggered emails. Your options there are Customer.io, Vero, Autopilot, Outbound, Klaviyo, or Threads.