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Create your first alert rule

By the end of this guide a rule watches a zone for you, and emails you when your tag enters it.

Prerequisites

  • A tag visible on the Blecon Track map (complete Add your first tag first)
  • An email address to send alerts to

Step 1: Create a zone

  1. Open Blecon Track and go to Zones.
  2. Click + Add Zone.
  3. Search for a place, or draw the area on the map.
  4. Name the zone, such as "Loading Bay", and save it.

Step 2: Add an email channel

  1. Go to Integrations and open the Event delivery tab.
  2. Click + Add Email, name the channel, and enter the addresses that should receive alerts (up to 10).
  3. Save it, then use Test to send yourself a sample alert and confirm it arrives.

Email is the quickest way to start. Once you want alerts inside another system (Slack, PagerDuty, your own dashboards), add a webhook channel instead or as well.

Step 3: Add the rule

  1. Go to Rules and click + Add Rule.

    The Add Rule dialog, showing every rule type to choose from

  2. Select Zone Entry as the rule type.

  3. Choose the zone you created.
  4. Set the severity to Medium, so this raises an alert that stays open until someone deals with it, rather than a fire-and-forget notification.
  5. Under Notifications, select your email channel.
  6. Click Add Rule.

Your new rule joins the rules list, where you can see its type, severity, and how many alerts it currently has open:

The rules list, showing three enabled rules with their type and severity

Step 4: Trigger it

  1. Move your tag into the zone.
  2. The entry is detected at the tag's next report, within a few minutes.
  3. The alert lands in your inbox, and appears on the Alerts page ready to acknowledge and resolve.

What you have now

A working alert pipeline. Explore the other alert rule types to watch for return-to-base, dwell time, inactivity, and more.

Questions? Contact Blecon support — we're happy to help.