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title: "WP Umbrella Alerting System: What It Is & How to Use It"
description: "Discover WP Umbrella's Alerting System—what alerts you can receive and how to configure them to stay informed about your websites."
url: https://support.wp-umbrella.com/en/articles/21-wp-umbrella-alerting-system-what-it-is-and-how-to-use-it
collection: "Getting Started"
updated: 2026-11-11
language: en
---

# WP Umbrella Alerting System: What It Is & How to Use It

Discover WP Umbrella's Alerting System—what alerts you can receive and how to configure them to stay informed about your websites.

## Overview

The WP Umbrella Alerting System lets you set customized alerts for your websites, ensuring you never miss important updates about downtime, security issues, backups, and more. This article will guide you through what alerts are available and how to easily configure them for your needs.

**Estimated Time to Complete:** 3-5 minutes

**Prerequisites:** An active WP Umbrella account

## What Can You Be Alerted About? 🔔

WP Umbrella's Alerting System keeps you updated about critical website events across several new categories. You can monitor Uptime to know when your site goes down, comes back online, or becomes unstable.

The Security section provides alerts for new vulnerabilities, failed security updates, confirmed malware, and security audit reports.

For Updates and backups, you will be notified about sites broken after an update, completed manual update runs, ready backup downloads, restorations, and deployments.

We have also introduced a Daily digest feature that keeps you informed about sites still infected with malware, files under review, failed automated updates, failing backups, domain and SSL certificate renewals, premium licence renewals, disconnected sites, large storage usage, and short outages. Finally, you can set up an Activity report to track updates, backups, uptime, and security over a specific period

## Configuring Your Alerts: A Step-by-Step Guide 🛠

### Step 1: Log In to Your WP Umbrella Account

[Log in to your WP Umbrella](https://app.wp-umbrella.com/auth/signin) account to access your dashboard.

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/f77DKeDCwGZRY0HhMADiNsiq9qBYLKUJ26ZKocvfyif5H5dMmaEHCoAES2yiLHOb2bfLQA7t3rw.png)

### Step 2: Navigate to Alerts

Click the **Alerting** tab on the navigation bar to manage or create alerts.

![The Alerting screen lists a default notification, its email channel, included sites, and enabled status, with a Create an alert button. Visible: Alerting, Choose which alerts are sent, to whom, and for which sites., Create an alert, Alert, Channels, Sites.](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/qjNFkqfCJm5wRq2zWrg4EaolC3E10DH1HRa3h0faQRcYHZe7nM3LeQmQSavqZUdfPETb7e1zlzj.png)

### Step 3: Set Up or Customize an Alert

-   To create a **new alert**, click **Create Alert**.
    

![Alerting setup screen showing the Create an alert form, alert-setting presets, and configurable alert categories. Visible: Alerting, Back to alerts, Alert settings, Channels, Sites, Create an alert.](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/M14GCbPI8Ciy16eYPALFxeSoxO0aSiyvUS40PuGRmw6HSk3AgoSXbpizvdg0hcrpFZ0jcCYzhGE.png)

To customize an **existing alert**, select the alert you wish to edit and click **Edit**.

![The Alerting page lists a default notification, and a blue arrow points to its three-dot menu, which is open with Edit and Delete options. Visible: Alerting, Create an alert, Alert, Channels, Sites, Status.](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/Vb3I1puHOjm7WNpTdRPPTq4yfHBqtR1kgweKxKWl9Z7yZuKUg6xYisZDEpHSDdxgNsnCREqEU9B.png)

### Step 4: Customize Alert Details

Here, you can adjust settings such as:

-   Alert Name
    
-   Settings (Recommended, Urgent Only or Custom)
    

Once done, click **Next**.

![Alert settings screen for “Alerts Doroteja” shows notification presets and expandable alert categories, with Recommended selected and Security expanded. Visible: Back to alerts, Active, Default notification, Alert settings, Channels, Sites.](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/xmd0P01kVs4AYNy1C27vwlPsx6NAEt3Zbfot9o0EKpXFyTtjMH4pW2CwzHw2yH61eOM1ISBUNbh.png)

### Step 5: Configure which alerts suit you

In the new Alert settings interface, you can choose from three main presets. The Recommended preset enables the most important alerts that require your action. The Urgent only preset restricts notifications to critical events like downed sites, broken sites, malware, and vulnerabilities. If you prefer full control, you can choose the Custom setting to manually switch individual alerts on or off across all the categories mentioned above.

### Step 6: Daily digest alerts

The Daily digest is a helpful new feature that sends you just one email in the morning, and only when something actually needs your attention.

You can use it to stay on top of security with reminders for sites still infected with malware and suspicious files waiting for your review. It also keeps you updated on daily maintenance issues by reporting failed automatic updates grouped by the plugin and reason, failing backups, disconnected sites, and short outages lasting under five minutes. Additionally, the digest tracks your upcoming renewals, notifying you when domains, SSL certificates, or premium licences expire in thirty days or less, and flags any sites where backup storage goes over ten gigabytes. And you can also use preview button to see how it looks.

![Alert settings screen for the active Default notification, showing Daily digest alert categories with Preview links and switches. Visible: Back to alerts, Active, Default notification, Alert settings, Channels, Sites.](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/yjltemK6ccJYAF92HBt03524DeNXC0Rx35EQG7zEMSkn5pbBAy1ScWrEaLWD9YnlFBkRVUGEs2S.png)

### Step 7: Configure Notification Channels

-   Add up to 10 email addresses to receive notifications.
    
-   You can also integrate Slack notifications via Webhook to inform your team instantly.
    
-   Once you’ve finished configuring your alert, click **Save** to apply your changes.
    

![The alert Channels settings screen shows an active default notification with email recipients, a test email button, a Slack channel option, and Save changes. Visible: Back to alerts, Active, Default notification, Alert settings, Channels, Sites.](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/JMQ1Bh77ExgCMmIOBGJvq3KGVSEQgqT3OFHLnKWnUgXaUI8TmVnmB2BYXvw98ZMCTue0ArsPfS5.png)

## Common Issues & Troubleshooting 🤔

**1\. How many alerts can I create?**

You can create unlimited alerts—feel free to set alerts for specific websites, multiple websites, or different scenarios.

**2\. How many email addresses can I add per alert?**

You can add up to 10 email addresses per alert to receive notifications.

**3\. Will I be alerted about backup failures?**

Yes, as a part of your daily digest alerts.

**4\. Do I need to activate alerts manually?**

Nope! By default, key alerts for downtime, vulnerabilities, and backup statuses are already active on your account. However, you can customize these at any time.

## Final Thoughts 🌟

That's all you need to know to get the most out of WP Umbrella’s Alerting System. Easily keep tabs on your website’s security, uptime, and backups with customized notifications. Remember, if you ever need help, our support team is just a click away! 😊