Alerting overview

FireTail’s alerting system allows you to monitor and respond to specific conditions or anomalies within your API and application environment. Alerts are designed to notify you when thresholds you set up are met, helping to manage and mitigate potential issues effectively.

Alert Types

• Static Alerts: Triggered based on a fixed threshold value. When the specified threshold is reached, an alert is generated. 
• Anomaly Alerts: Uses historical data to detect unusual activity. These alerts detect irregular patterns that fall outside of established data ranges. Anomaly alerts can be adjusted for sensitivity to detect smaller or larger deviations.

Managed Alerts

FireTail also offers preconfigured managed alerts designed to detect common security threats and operational issues. These alerts cover scenarios such as SQL injection attacks, secret key exposure, malicious and suspicious requests, high-risk geographic locations, authentication failures, server errors, and the detection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Managed alerts can be applied to both static and anomaly detection alerts.

Notification Integrations

Alerts are linked to notification integrations, these function as the communication method for the alert. Notifications can be sent through various channels, including HTTP webhooks, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, Jira, and more.