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description: Define threshold, anomaly detection, and SLO monitors that evaluate SQL API queries on a schedule.
title: Monitors (Beta)
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October 2, 2026

## Monitors (Beta)

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The Alerts section now includes **Monitors** (Beta), a dedicated space for creating alerts based on your own [SQL API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/sql-api/) queries. Monitors are available under **Observability** > **Alerts** > **Monitors** in the Cloudflare dashboard.

![Monitors empty state showing the Create Monitor button and a diagram of the query-to-monitor-to-destinations flow.](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=2326,height=1014,format=webp/_astro/monitors-empty-state.BDD8ZbSb.png)

Each monitor evaluates a query against a supported SQL API dataset on a schedule and sends a notification when the result meets your detection criteria. Three detection methods are available:

- **Threshold**: triggers when a query result crosses a fixed value.
- **Anomaly detection**: triggers when a query result deviates from its historical baseline by more than a configured sensitivity.
- **SLO**: triggers when the ratio of successful events to total events drops below a target percentage.

The monitor builder includes a visual query builder, custom SQL support, and a query preview that charts the signal over a configurable time range of up to 7 days.

![Monitor query builder showing dataset selection, metric, filters, and a query preview chart with anomaly bounds.](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=2542,height=1306,format=webp/_astro/monitors-query-builder.Bn253N-Y.png)

Pre-defined notifications for DDoS, SSL/TLS, Health Checks, and other Cloudflare products are now listed separately under **Platform Notifications**.

For configuration details, refer to [Monitors](https://developers.cloudflare.com/notifications/monitors/).

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