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title: Monitors
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description: Sumo Logic Monitors continuously query your logs or metrics and send notifications when specific events occur, such as critical, warning, and missing data.
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Sumo Logic Monitors allow you to set robust and configurable alerting policies that enable you to get notified about critical changes or issues affecting your production application.

In this section, we'll introduce the following concepts:

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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/alerts/monitors/overview')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/operations/monitor-and-visualize.png')} alt="Monitor and Visualize icon" width="40"/><h4>Overview</h4></a>
  <p>Set up monitors to continuously query your logs or metrics and send notifications when specific events occur.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/alerts/monitors/create-monitor')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/operations/monitor-and-visualize.png')} alt="Monitor and Visualize icon" width="40"/><h4>Create a New Monitor</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to create a monitor.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/alerts/monitors/settings')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/operations/monitor-and-visualize.png')} alt="Monitor and Visualize icon" width="40"/><h4>Monitor Settings</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to view, create, manage, and organize Monitors.</p>
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    <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/alerts/monitors/monitor-faq')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/operations/monitor-and-visualize.png')} alt="Monitor and Visualize icon" width="40"/><h4>Monitors FAQ</h4></a>
  <p>This topic lists the common FAQs regarding Monitors.</p>
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    <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/alerts/monitors/alert-variables')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/operations/monitor-and-visualize.png')} alt="Monitor and Visualize icon" width="40"/><h4>Alert Variables</h4></a>
  <p>Use Alert Variables as parameters to customize the JSON payload object of your alert notifications.</p>
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  <p>Get contextual insights about triggered alerts to minimize the time needed to investigate and resolve application failures.</p>
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  <p>This topic lists the common FAQs regarding Alert Response.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/alerts/monitors/alert-grouping')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/operations/monitor-and-visualize.png')} alt="Monitor and Visualize icon" width="40"/><h4>Alert Grouping</h4></a>
<p>Customize how your alerts are generated from monitors by specifying a grouping condition based on specific fields.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/alerts/monitors/muting-schedules')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/operations/monitor-and-visualize.png')} alt="Monitor and Visualize icon" width="40"/><h4>Muting Schedules</h4></a>
  <p>Pause alert notifications from monitors according to the schedule that you define.</p>
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  <p>Add Scheduled Searches that monitor log ingestion and send alerts.</p>
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  <p>Learn how to use Automation Service playbooks with monitors.</p>
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