---
title: "Retrieve an Existing Alert Policy"
method: GET
path: "/v2/monitoring/alerts/{alert_uuid}"
tags: ["DigitalOcean-public.v2-new_Monitoring"]
---

# Retrieve an Existing Alert Policy

`GET /v2/monitoring/alerts/{alert_uuid}`

To retrieve a given alert policy, send a GET request to `/v2/monitoring/alerts/{alert_uuid}`

## Path parameters

- `alert_uuid` string, required

## Response `200`

An alert policy.

- object
  - `policy` AlertPolicy
    - `alerts` Alerts, required
      - `email` string[], required — An email to notify on an alert trigger.
      - `slack` SlackDetails[], required — Slack integration details.
        - `channel` string, required — Slack channel to notify of an alert trigger.
        - `url` string, required — Slack Webhook URL.
    - `compare` 'GreaterThan' | 'LessThan', required
    - `description` string, required
    - `enabled` boolean, required
    - `entities` string[], required
    - `tags` string[], required
    - `type` 'v1/insights/droplet/load_1' | 'v1/insights/droplet/load_5' | 'v1/insights/droplet/load_15' | 'v1/insights/droplet/memory_utilization_percent' | 'v1/insights/droplet/disk_utilization_percent' | 'v1/insights/droplet/cpu' | 'v1/insights/droplet/disk_read' | 'v1/insights/droplet/disk_write' | 'v1/insights/droplet/public_outbound_bandwidth' | 'v1/insights/droplet/public_inbound_bandwidth' | 'v1/insights/droplet/private_outbound_bandwidth' | 'v1/insights/droplet/private_inbound_bandwidth' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/avg_cpu_utilization_percent' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/connection_utilization_percent' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/droplet_health' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/tls_connections_per_second_utilization_percent' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/increase_in_http_error_rate_percentage_5xx' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/increase_in_http_error_rate_percentage_4xx' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/increase_in_http_error_rate_count_5xx' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/increase_in_http_error_rate_count_4xx' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/high_http_request_response_time' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/high_http_request_response_time_50p' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/high_http_request_response_time_95p' | 'v1/insights/lbaas/high_http_request_response_time_99p' | 'v1/dbaas/alerts/load_15_alerts' | 'v1/dbaas/alerts/memory_utilization_alerts' | 'v1/dbaas/alerts/disk_utilization_alerts' | 'v1/dbaas/alerts/cpu_alerts' | 'v1/droplet/autoscale_alerts/current_instances' | 'v1/droplet/autoscale_alerts/target_instances' | 'v1/droplet/autoscale_alerts/current_cpu_utilization' | 'v1/droplet/autoscale_alerts/target_cpu_utilization' | 'v1/droplet/autoscale_alerts/current_memory_utilization' | 'v1/droplet/autoscale_alerts/target_memory_utilization' | 'v1/droplet/autoscale_alerts/scale_up' | 'v1/droplet/autoscale_alerts/scale_down', required
    - `uuid` string, required
    - `value` number, float, required
    - `window` '5m' | '10m' | '30m' | '1h', required

## Other responses

- `401` — Authentication failed due to invalid credentials.
- `404` — The resource was not found.
- `429` — The API rate limit has been exceeded.
- `500` — There was a server error.
- `default` — There was an unexpected error.

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