---
title: tickscript.alert() function
description: >
  The `tickscript.alert()` function function identifies events of varying severity levels
  and writes them to the `statuses` measurement in the InfluxDB
  `_monitoring` system bucket.
menu:
  influxdb_cloud_ref:
    name: tickscript.alert
    parent: TICKscript
weight: 302
related:
  - /{{< latest "kapacitor" >}}/nodes/alert_node/, Kapacitor AlertNode
introduced: 0.111.0
---

{{< duplicate-oss >}}