# Create Alerts

The minimum role required to create alerts is member. Sentry users with manager or owner permissions can change the minimum role requirement in **Settings > General Settings > Let Members Create and Edit Alerts**.

To create alerts:

1. Navigate to **Alerts** and click "Create Alert Rule".

2. Choose what you want to be alerted about. Selecting “Issues” creates an [issue alert](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/alert-types.md#issue-alerts), selecting “Uptime Monitor” creates an [uptime alert](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/alert-types.md#uptime-alerts), while selecting any other option creates a [metric alert](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/alert-types.md#metric-alerts).

3. Click "Set Conditions".

4. On the alert configuration page, set the conditions of the alert:

   * [Issue Alert Configuration](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/create-alerts/issue-alert-config.md)
   * [Metric Alert Configuration](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/create-alerts/metric-alert-config.md)
   * [Uptime Alert Configuration](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/create-alerts/uptime-alert-config.md)

## [Duplicate Alerts](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/create-alerts.md#duplicate-alerts)

You can also create an alert by duplicating an existing issue or metric alert rule. To do so, navigate to **Alerts** and click "Duplicate" in the context menu (under "Actions") on the row with the alert rule you want to copy:

## [Alert Limits](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/create-alerts.md#alert-limits)

[Issue alerts](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/alert-types.md#issue-alerts) are limited to 100 alerts with "slow" conditions, and 500 alerts with "fast" conditions. A "slow" condition is a [change](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/create-alerts/issue-alert-config.md#change-alerts) or [percent based](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/create-alerts/issue-alert-config.md#percent-based-alerts) alert. These take more processing time than the "fast" conditions, which are related to issue state changes. [Uptime alerts](https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/alert-types.md#uptime-alerts) are limited to 100 alerts.