# Faults and Alerts

## Introduction <a href="#id-0-toc-title" id="id-0-toc-title"></a>

Faults that happen in the system, whether from Infrastructure creation, container deployments, application health checks, or triggered alarms can be tracked in the **Faults** menu.

## Viewing Faults <a href="#id-1-toc-title" id="id-1-toc-title"></a>

You can look at Tenant-specific faults under **Observability** -> **Faults** or all the faults in the system under **Administrator** -> **Faults**.

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## Creating Alerts <a href="#id-2-toc-title" id="id-2-toc-title"></a>

You can set the AWS Alerts for individual metrics.

1. From the DuploCloud portal, navigate to **Observability** -> **Alerts** and click **Add**. The **Create Alert** pane displays.
2. Enter the **Resource Type** and select the resource from the **Resource type** list box. Click **Nex**t.
3. Fill in the necessary information and click **Create**. The Alert is created.

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## Viewing Alerts

* View general alerts from the DuploCloud Portal in the **Observability** -> **Alerts**.
* Select the **Alerts** tab for alerts pertaining to a specific resource, such as **Hosts**.

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