# Incidents

To create Incidents for your monitor, head over to:

 **Monitoring -> Monitors -> Your Monitor -> Edit -> Policies -> ( + ) New Policy**

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Range type is based on your last number of **runs / minutes / hours / days**

Metric will determine your **monitor / instance availability** based on your desired percentage 

Incident Severity will alert based on the severity, **Unknown (No alerts) / Minor / Critical.** 

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To set alerts, head over to: **Reports & Alerts -> ( + ) Add Group**
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Resolve Automatically **will stop the incident** if no problems were founds.

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