# Possible to set an Alert for Dependency Transaction Failure Rate?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-set-an-alert-for-dependency-transaction-failure-rate/301197>\
**Category:** Elastic Observability\
**Created:** [March 31, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-set-an-alert-for-dependency-transaction-failure-rate/301197 "2022-03-31T13:14:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bevaldss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bevaldss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bevaldss)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-set-an-alert-for-dependency-transaction-failure-rate/301197/1 "2022-03-31T13:14:07Z")

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Hi,  
We recently started to dig in to how to use Rules and Watcher for Alerts (Elastic Cloud v8.1 very soon, onprem 7.16.x today).  
Is it possible to set an Alert for Dependency Transaction Failure Rate ?  
I guess perhaps via a Rule?  
Best regards  
/Bengt

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-set-an-alert-for-dependency-transaction-failure-rate/301197/2 "2022-11-04T08:34:57Z")

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