# doctl monitoring alert – DigitalOcean Documentation

> The commands under `doctl monitoring alert` are for managing alert policies.

You can apply alert policies to resources in order to receive alerts on resource consumption. 
			
If you'd like to alert on the uptime of a specific URL or IP address, use `doctl monitoring uptime alert` instead
- [doctl monitoring alert create](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/alert/create/index.html.md): Creates a new alert policy. You can create policies that monitor various metrics of your Droplets and send you alerts when a metric exceeds a specified threshold. For example, you can create a policy that monitors a Droplet's CPU usage and triggers an …
- [doctl monitoring alert delete](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/alert/delete/index.html.md): Deletes an alert policy.
- [doctl monitoring alert get](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/alert/get/index.html.md): Retrieves an alert policy and its configuration.
- [doctl monitoring alert list](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/alert/list/index.html.md): Retrieves a list of all the alert policies in your account.
- [doctl monitoring alert update](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/alert/update/index.html.md): Updates an existing alert policy.