---
title: "Monitoring Frequency"
slug: "monitoring-frequency"
updated: 2025-12-25T11:24:05Z
published: 2025-12-25T11:24:05Z
canonical: "docs.sightmachine.com/monitoring-frequency"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.sightmachine.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Monitoring Frequency

Monitoring and notifications are two separate concepts in the alerting application that allow you greater flexibility to determine how often incidents are generated and how often notifications are sent to recipients.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/e12589d3-7be2-41d0-8b80-42f0fd0e5e3b.png)

In the Monitoring Frequency section, you can set the following:

- Under **Check for Alerts every**, set the frequency at which the application is run and the time period selected each time the application is run. For example, if you set **Check for Alerts every** to 5 hours, the application runs every 5 hours and checks the last 5 hours of data.
- Under **Notify me at most every**, set the maximum frequency at which you are notified by a given alert. For example, if you set **Notify me at most every** to 1 day, a number of incidents could occur over the course of the day, but you are only notified of the first incident, and then again for 1 day.