# Sending alerts

Paradime Alerts allow you to set up and manage notifications for your dbt™ projects, keeping you informed of important events and anomalies. With support for both Slack and Microsoft Teams, you can customize your alerts to fit your team's communication preferences.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td> <strong>Slack Alerts</strong></td><td>Set up and manage Slack alerts for your dbt™ projects. Integrate with Elementary CLI for seamless reporting and alerting.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/UuYOgnLQjrZvFFdfs4qj">/pages/UuYOgnLQjrZvFFdfs4qj</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Microsoft Teams Alerts</strong></td><td>Set up and manage Slack alerts for your dbt™ projects. Integrate with Elementary CLI for seamless reporting and alerting.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/SJjwwXNI3WN7BMsbEmU8">/pages/SJjwwXNI3WN7BMsbEmU8</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Alert Configuration and Customization</strong></td><td>Learn how to configure and customize your alerts for optimal notification management.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/wmeZ3VPDT1gsZ2njE203">/pages/wmeZ3VPDT1gsZ2njE203</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Why Use Paradime Alerts?

1. **Stay Informed**: Get notified about test failures, model run issues, and source freshness problems.
2. **Customize Notifications**: Tailor alerts with properties like owner, subscribers, description, and tags.
3. **Flexible Configuration**: Set up suppression intervals, custom channels, and alert filters.
4. **Integration**: Seamlessly integrates with Elementary CLI for comprehensive reporting and alerting.

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When running Elementary in dbt™ production jobs ([Bolt](/app-help/documentation/bolt.md)), you can trigger alerts within the schedules [commands](/app-help/documentation/bolt/creating-schedules.md#example-paradime_schedulesyml-configuration).
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