# Monitor events in an alert

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-events-in-an-alert/381023
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [August 13, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-events-in-an-alert/381023 "2025-08-13T21:14:11Z")
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### Author: ![Lev2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lev2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lev2)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-events-in-an-alert/381023/1 "2025-08-13T21:14:11Z")

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I want to monitor the amount of events for a period with a treshold.

How can I set this in an alert rule?

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### Author: ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-events-in-an-alert/381023/2 "2025-08-14T04:49:50Z")

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Hello @Lev2

Welcome to the Community!!

If you could share the usecase in more detail than as per that can provide proper suggestion.

Still for basic can use =\> "Index threshold rule" & set the conditions/actions as per your requirement.

Example :

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/7/77812aa8717ab1269d8086dfcbd3fe7172dd2daa.png)

Rule : With KQL filter  
response : 503

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/2/5232127f4a36db44e435b27b2787ca99499db713.png)

Thanks!!