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title: Creating APM Based Alerts
slug: creating-apm-based-alerts
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createdAt: 2024-08-02T03:03:10.370Z
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OpsVerse ObserveNow uses `ClickHouse` as the storage engine for managing the APM and distributed traces data. This `Clickhouse` is configured as a `datasource` within Grafana. This enables the users to create rich alerting on top of the APM and distributed traces data.

To create APM based alerts, on the `Create New Alert` screen, select `ClickHouseObserve` as the datasource and use the `SQL Editor` or the `Query Builder` interfaces to construct the query.

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/A1ybFzEd4Yg88MHjQbQjT-LadfRgazkANH1BnceAMDq-20240802-030749.png)

All the remaining steps are similar to those of regular alerts.