# Alerts Management
Most monitoring solutions treat alerts as raw events without much context or relationship.
Figure 1: Root Cause Analysis
IT-Conductor manages alerts more effectively by using policy-based exceptions where alerts can be filtered, time-synchronized, and automatically recovered, including targeted notification to the right analyst reducing mean time to repair (MTTR).
Alerts are configured in IT-Conductor using the concept of [thresholds and overrides](https://docs.itconductor.com/overview/monitoring-concepts).
See [Creating Threshold Overrides](https://docs.itconductor.com/user-guide/notifications/threshold-overrides) for more information.
After setting up the IT-Conductor Gateway and configuring the required parameters for the monitored systems, the platform will start receiving different metrics. Using thresholds and overrides, IT-Conductor can send out alert notifications via e-mail, provided that the user has subscribed to receive notifications for that specific service.
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