> ## Documentation Index
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# Alert Events

> API endpoints for alert events

Create alerts within incident.io.

The alerts API allows you to create alerts within incident.io by posting alert events. You
can use alerts to automatically trigger incidents.

To create an alert, you must first configure an alert source in the incident.io dashboard.