# Alert when data is missing?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alert-when-data-is-missing/307886>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting, filebeat\
**Created:** [June 22, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alert-when-data-is-missing/307886 "2022-06-22T13:46:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alert-when-data-is-missing/307886/4 "2022-06-22T14:07:13Z")

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You can check the documentation on how to create an alert.

Start [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/alerting-getting-started.html), then this shows you how to create an [index threshold rule](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/rule-type-index-threshold.html) which can help you monitor your index.

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