# Notifications Notifications in StackState are the way to notify third-party applications when a [monitor](/monitors-and-alerts/k8s-monitors.md) in StackState fires. Notifications intergrate with third-party applications like incident management tools (like PagerDuty or Opsgenie), ticketing systems (like JIRA, ServiceNow), or other collaboration platforms (like Slack). Other tools might refer to notifications as alerts. Notifications are triggered by health state changes of monitors on StackState components. Via the configured notification channels the health, component and monitor information is sent to these external systems. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://archivedocs.stackstate.com/monitors-and-alerts/notifications.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.