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+title: "View active health alarms"
+description: "View active alarms and their rich data to discover and resolve anomalies and performance issues across your infrastructure."
+custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/docs/monitor/view-active-alarms.md
+-->
+
+# View active health alarms
+
+Every Netdata Agent comes with hundreds of pre-installed health alarms designed to notify you when an anomaly or
+performance issue affects your node or the applications it runs.
+
+As soon as you launch a Netdata Agent and [claim it](/docs/get/README.md#claim-your-node-on-netdata-cloud), you can view
+active alarms in both the local dashboard and Netdata Cloud.
+
+## View active alarms in Netdata Cloud
+
+You can see active alarms from any node in your infrastructure in two ways: Click on the bell 🔔 icon in the top
+navigation, or click on the first column of any node's row in Nodes. This column's color changes based on the node's
+[health status](/health/REFERENCE.md#alarm-statuses): gray is `CLEAR`, yellow is `WARNING`, and red is `CRITICAL`.
+
+![The Alarms panel in Netdata
+Cloud](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/93541137-70761f00-f90a-11ea-89ef-7948c6213200.png)
+
+The Alarms panel lists all active alarms for nodes within that War Room, and tells you which chart triggered the alarm,
+what that chart's current value is, the alarm that triggered it, and when the alarm status first began.
+
+Use the input field in the Alarms panel to filter active alarms. You can sort by the node's name, alarm, status, chart
+that triggered the alarm, or the operating system. Read more about the [filtering
+syntax](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/cloud/war-rooms#node-filter) to build valuable filters for your infrastructure.
+
+Click on the 3-dot icon (`â‹®`) to view active alarm information or navigate directly to the offending chart in that
+node's Cloud dashboard with the **Go to chart** button.
+
+The active alarm information gives you details about the alarm that's been triggered. You can see the alarm's
+configuration, how it calculates warning or critical alarms, and which configuration file you could edit on that node if
+you want to tweak or disable the alarm to better suit your needs.
+
+![Screenshot from 2020-09-17
+17-21-29](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/93541139-710eb580-f90a-11ea-809d-25afe1270108.png)
+
+## View active alarms in the Netdata Agent
+
+Find the bell 🔔 icon in the top navigation to bring up a modal that shows currently raised alarms, all running alarms,
+and the alarms log. Here is an example of a raised `system.cpu` alarm, followed by the full list and alarm log:
+
+![Animated GIF of looking at raised alarms and the alarm
+log](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/80842482-8c289500-8bb6-11ea-9791-600cfdbe82ce.gif)
+
+And a static screenshot of the raised CPU alarm:
+
+![Screenshot of a raised system CPU
+alarm](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/80842330-2dfbb200-8bb6-11ea-8147-3cd366eb0f37.png)
+
+The alarm itself is named **system - cpu**, and its context is `system.cpu`. Beneath that is an auto-updating badge that
+shows the latest value of the chart that triggered the alarm.
+
+With the three icons beneath that and the **role** designation, you can:
+
+1. Scroll to the chart associated with this raised alarm.
+2. Copy a link to the badge to your clipboard.
+3. Copy the code to embed the badge onto another web page using an `<embed>` element.
+
+The table on the right-hand side displays information about the health entity that triggered the alarm, which you can
+use as a reference to [configure alarms](/docs/monitor/configure-alarms.md).
+
+## What's next?
+
+With the information that appears on Netdata Cloud and the local dashboard about active alarms, you can [configure
+alarms](/docs/monitor/configure-alarms.md) to match your infrastructure's needs or your team's goals.
+
+If you're happy with the pre-configured alarms, skip ahead to [enable
+notifications](/docs/monitor/enable-notifications.md) to use Netdata Cloud's centralized alarm notifications and/or
+per-node notifications to endpoints like Slack, PagerDuty, Twilio, and more.
+
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