Health alerts and warning signals

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• Published Mar 19, 2026

Health alerts and warning signals categorize infrastructure events by severity within Infrastructure Observability applications. This categorization helps you distinguish between conditions that require immediate action and those that can be addressed proactively before they become critical.

Overview

There are two types of events based on the severity and potential impact of detected conditions: health alerts and warning signals.

Health alerts

A health alert is a critical event and requires immediate resolution to prevent or limit impact on monitored infrastructure.

When Dynatrace detects a condition that affects environment performance or customer experience, it raises a health alert and triggers a problem in Problems for investigation.

Warning signals

A warning signal is a non-critical, informative event that is typically resolved within business hours. If a warning signal is left unresolved, it can escalate to a health alert, triggering a problem with critical impact on the monitored infrastructure.

Warning signals don't trigger problems. They notify you of conditions that are potential indicators of degradation but have not yet reached a critical threshold.

Enable the feature

To take advantage of this feature, you need to enable it from Settings. Go to Analyze and alert > Alerts > Category update, then select Ready-made alerts category update and enable Updated classification for select ready-made alerts.

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