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# Error rate spike

> Get notified when your error rate climbs above a threshold

Error rate spike alerts you when the share of failed requests goes above a percentage you set. Use it as an early warning that something is broken — a misconfigured client, an outage at a provider, or a bad deploy on your end.

## When to use it

* Catching elevated failure rates before users start complaining.
* Knowing when an integration is silently failing in the background.
* Tracking provider-side issues without watching dashboards.

This alert needs enough traffic for the percentage to be meaningful — very low-volume accounts may not see it fire often.

## What you configure

| Setting                  | What it does                                                            |
| ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Threshold Percentage** | The error rate that triggers the alert (e.g. `10` for 10%).             |
| **Scope**                | Whose traffic to watch — your personal traffic, or your organization's. |
| **Schedule**             | How often to evaluate — hourly, daily, or weekly.                       |

Organization scope is available if your role can see organization-level traffic.

## How you're notified

Email and/or SMS, based on your preferences in **Settings → Notifications**. See [the alerts overview](/docs/alerts/overview) for delivery details and cooldown behavior.