# Alerting & Monitoring

Lenses provides alerting on you application landscape and also your Kafka clusters at a per environment level. Alerts are send to channels, you can have multiple channels of each per type alert integration connection type.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="image"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h4>Alert Integration</h4></td><td>Send alerts out to external systems</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><h4>Alert Rules</h4></td><td>Configure alert rules for consumers, producers and Kafka</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><h4>Alert Reference</h4></td><td>Understand the alerting codes and meaning</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>


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