---
title: How to contribute a new alert integration to Kapacitor
aliases:
    - kapacitor/v1.6/contributing/custom_alert/
    - kapacitor/v1.6/about_the_project/custom_alert/
menu:
  kapacitor_1_6:
    name: Writing your own alert integration
    identifier: custom_alert
    weight: 4
    parent: work-w-kapacitor
    params:
      url: https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/blob/master/alert/HANDLERS.md
---