What is the difference between IT monitoring and IT alerting?

Written by Eduard Eduard Agapie 1 min read Updated Feb 5, 2026
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IT monitoring tracks the health and performance of systems, services, and infrastructure. IT alerting takes signals from monitoring tools and notifies the right people when something goes wrong. Monitoring detects issues. Alerting makes sure they are acted on.

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