# Proactive alerts for your GraphQL API

DevFeed: [Proactive alerts for your GraphQL API](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/proactive-alerts-for-your-graphql-api-23403.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/introducing-alerts-in-apollo-engine-e32eeb03b7fa>)

Author: James Baxley III

Published: 2018-04-10T20:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apollo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apollo.md>), [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [notifications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/notifications.md>), [pagerduty](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pagerduty.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/request.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>)

## AI overview

Apollo Engine introduces Alerts for GraphQL APIs. The feature lets teams set service-wide or operation-level thresholds for request rate, duration, error rate, and error percentage, with notifications sent to Slack or PagerDuty. Alerts are evaluated over a rolling five-minute window and resolve when performance returns to acceptable levels.

## Source excerpt

GraphQL makes it incredibly easy for teams to request any data that they need to build a feature. This flexibility is great for shipping fast, but when you get into production, you need to be able to respond in a flexible way, however your schema is being used. Wouldn't it be great if you had a tool that would proactively tell you when your service was slowing down or was running into errors? With Apollo Engine's new Alerts feature, now you do!