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Only tell them about a failing check.

Alerts › rules. Kinds sit under the tags. Checks is one tick. None ticked still means every kind.

A checks rule does not stop the hub from raising a disk or a downtime. It only decides which of those become a message.
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Tick checks

Open Alerts › rules and press + rule. Under kinds, tick checks and leave the others clear. That kind is a check on the machine that has failed. None ticked still means every kind. The address is typed and not added yet. Type and tags left empty cover every machine.

New alert rule with the checks kind ticked and an email address in the contact field
New rule with checks ticked. The address is not a contact yet.
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Read the sentence, then add the rule

Press add contact. The grey sentence reads: tell email ops@example.com when a warning or worse (check) opens on 6 machines in Example Co, and again when it resolves. Press add rule when that sentence is the one you want. This shot stops before that. A later edit of the same rule is Change an alert rule.

Rule editor with checks ticked, an email contact, and a preview that names check
The sentence names check and ops@example.com. Add rule saves it. Nothing has been saved in this shot.

A rule for every kind is Tell someone when a machine needs attention. Disk only is Only tell them about disk alerts. Downtime only is Only tell them about downtime. A reboot is Only tell them about a reboot. A custom metric that posts down is Only tell them about a custom metric. Adding the check itself is Add a disk or ping check.