Out of the box SQL Monitor has a number of alerts configured for you. You can just install the software, set up an SMTP account for it and walk away. Suddenly, you’ll start receiving emails from Monitor because some of your systems will hit an alert threshold. Win right? Then you notice that you’re getting lots of email. Suddenly, not a win. So you turn off alerting. oops. Please don’t. Instead, adjust the alerts so that they are right for you and your system.

This video I recorded shows how to walk through the alerts and configure them for your system because you want to reduce the noise and increase the signal so that alerts are helping you, not making you crazy.