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# Alert details page
Navigate to the Alert details view by visiting the
[Alert list](alerts.md) and selecting an alert from the
list. You need least Developer [permissions](../../user/permissions.md) to access
alerts.
Alerts provide **Overview** and **Alert details** tabs to give you the right
amount of information you need.
## Alert overview tab
The **Overview** tab provides basic information about the alert:
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# Create and manage alerts in GitLab
Users with at least Developer [permissions](../../user/permissions.md) can access
the Alert Management list at **{cloud-gear}****Operations > Alerts** in your
project's sidebar. The Alert Management list displays alerts sorted by start time,
but you can change the sort order by clicking the headers in the Alert Management list.
([Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/217745) in GitLab 13.1.)
The alert list displays the following information:
You can configure an externally-managed Prometheus instance to send alerts
to GitLab. To set up this configuration, read the [configuring Prometheus](../metrics/alerts.md#external-prometheus-instances) documentation. Activating the external Prometheus
configuration also enables the [Alerts list](alerts.md).
GitLab provides the Generic Alerts endpoint so you can accept alerts from a third-party
alerts service. Read the
[instructions for toggling generic alerts](../../user/project/integrations/generic_alerts.md#setting-up-generic-alerts)
to add this option. After configuring the endpoint, the
[Alerts list](alerts.md) is enabled.
To populate the alerts with data, read [Customizing the payload](../../user/project/integrations/generic_alerts.md#customizing-the-payload) for requests to the alerts endpoint.
### Opsgenie integration **(PREMIUM)**
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/3066) in [GitLab Premium](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 13.2.
A new way of monitoring Alerts via a GitLab integration is with
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# Create and manage incidents in GitLab
While no configuration is required to use the [manual features](#create-an-incident-manually)
of incident management, some simple [configuration](#configure-incidents) is needed to automate incident creation.
For users with at least Developer [permissions](../../user/permissions.md), the
Incident Management list is available at **Operations > Incidents**
in your project's sidebar. The list contains the following metrics: