**Alerts** are saved searches that run on a schedule and trigger an action when a specific condition is met (e.g., count > 100).
Alert actions include: sending an email, running a script, using a webhook, or logging to a summary index.
You can configure **throttling** to prevent alert storms — suppressing duplicate triggers for a set window based on specific field values.
index=security action=failed | stats count by src_ip | where count > 50