Title: Notifications
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: August 2, 2023
Last modified: December 29, 2025

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#  Notifications

Notifications are automated messages triggered by events that occur on the environments
of an organization’s applications (e.g., code deployments, performance metrics anomalies,
plugin vulnerabilities identified in application code). All types of Notifications,
including [Important Alerts](https://docs.wpvip.com/notifications/important-alerts/),
can be configured in [the VIP Dashboard](https://docs.wpvip.com/vip-dashboard/).

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   ### 󠀁[Important Alerts](https://docs.wpvip.com/notifications/important-alerts/)󠁿
   
 * Important Alerts are automated Notifications that are sent to communicate time-
   sensitive information that potentially affect an organization and some or all
   of its applications or environments.
 * 
   ### 󠀁[Destinations](https://docs.wpvip.com/notifications/destinations/)󠁿
   
 * Notifications for an event are sent to a Destination. Destinations can be a webhook
   URL for Slack, Google Chat, or Microsoft Teams, a general-purpose webhook URL,
   or an email address.
 * 
   ### 󠀁[Notifications for an organization](https://docs.wpvip.com/notifications/organization-notifications/)󠁿
   
 * Notifications for an organization are configured per-environment type (production
   vs. non-production) of its applications, or for a single specific environment.
 * 
   ### 󠀁[Notifications for an application](https://docs.wpvip.com/notifications/application-notifications/)󠁿
   
 * Notifications for an application are configured per-environment type (production
   vs. non-production), or for a single specific environment of that application.
 * 
   ### 󠀁[Notification event types](https://docs.wpvip.com/notifications/event-types/)󠁿
   
 * Notifications can be configured for a variety of event types including detected
   performance metrics anomalies, the success or failure of code deployments, and
   vulnerabilities detected by Codebase Manager.

Last updated: December 29, 2025