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# Gatus Integration

Gatus is an open-source tool for monitoring uptime, designed to help you track the health and availability of your applications. With the Gatus and ilert integration, alerts can be automatically triggered in ilert whenever Gatus detects downtime or performance problems.

## In ilert: Create a Gatus alert source

1. Go to **Alert sources** -> **Alert sources** and click **Create new alert source**.

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2. Search for **Gatus** in the search field, click the Gatus tile, and then **Next**.

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3. Give your alert source a name, optionally assign teams, and click **Next**.
4. Select an **escalation policy** by creating a new one or assigning an existing one.

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5. Select your [Alert grouping](/alerting/configure-alerting/alert-sources.md#alert-grouping) preference and click **Continue setup**. You may click **Do not group alerts** for now and change it later.

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6. The next page shows additional settings, such as customer alert templates or notification priority. Click **Finish setup** for now.
7. On the final page, an API key and/or webhook URL will be generated. You will need it later.

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## In Gatus: Configure the ilert alert provider

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