Managing alert generation, prioritization, anomaly detection

concept australia Updated Sep 10, 2026 1 min read hla-controlling-alert-generation.md

Influence how Health Log Analytics generates and prioritizes alerts and identifies anomalies. Use alert filters to reduce noise from unimportant issues.

Overview of impacting alert generation, prioritization, and anomaly detection

Explore how to influence alert generation and anomaly detection in Health Log Analytics. You can create and modify rules to generate alerts for specific metrics, ensuring that you're informed of important issues. You can also assign different levels of significance to alerts, helping Health Log Analytics prioritize them based on their relevance. In addition, you can influence anomaly detection by managing the keywords that Health Log Analytics looks for in your log data, and use advanced log alert filters to reduce noise.

Using alert rules to control when Health Log Analytics generates alerts

Manage alert rules to generate Log Analytics alerts for specified metrics.
Assign higher or lower significance to an alert in Health Log Analytics

Assign higher or lower significance to an alert to help prioritize the alerts that Health Log Analytics generates.
Influence anomaly detection in Health Log Analytics with lexical keywords

Influence how Health Log Analytics finds anomalies by managing keywords it looks for in your log data.
Reduce noise by adding advanced log alert filters

Use advanced log alert filters to reduce noise by making Health Log Analytics drop alerts that don't indicate a significant issue.

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title: Managing alert generation, prioritization, anomaly detection
description: Influence how Health Log Analytics generates and prioritizes alerts and identifies anomalies. Use alert filters to reduce noise from unimportant issues.
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# Managing alert generation, prioritization, anomaly detection

Influence how Health Log Analytics generates and prioritizes alerts and identifies anomalies. Use alert filters to reduce noise from unimportant issues.

## Overview of impacting alert generation, prioritization, and anomaly detection

Explore how to influence alert generation and anomaly detection in Health Log Analytics. You can create and modify rules to generate alerts for specific metrics, ensuring that you're informed of important issues. You can also assign different levels of significance to alerts, helping Health Log Analytics prioritize them based on their relevance. In addition, you can influence anomaly detection by managing the keywords that Health Log Analytics looks for in your log data, and use advanced log alert filters to reduce noise.

-   [Using alert rules to control when Health Log Analytics generates alerts](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/health-log-analytics/hla-alert-rules-manage.md)

    Manage alert rules to generate Log Analytics alerts for specified metrics.

-   [Assign higher or lower significance to an alert in Health Log Analytics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/health-log-analytics/hla-op-alert-significance.md)

    Assign higher or lower significance to an alert to help prioritize the alerts that Health Log Analytics generates.

-   [Influence anomaly detection in Health Log Analytics with lexical keywords](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/health-log-analytics/hla-log-anomaly-detection.md)

    Influence how Health Log Analytics finds anomalies by managing keywords it looks for in your log data.

-   [Reduce noise by adding advanced log alert filters](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/health-log-analytics/hla-op-adv-alert-filtering.md)

    Use advanced log alert filters to reduce noise by making Health Log Analytics drop alerts that don't indicate a significant issue.