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 ### Alerting
 
+Gatus supports multiple alerting providers, such as Slack and PagerDuty, and supports different alerts for each
+individual services with configurable descriptions and thresholds.
+
+Note that if an alerting provider is not configured properly, all alerts configured with the provider's type will be
+ignored.
+
 
 #### Configuring Slack alerts