# Observability

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This section is only available in Portainer Business Edition and only accessible by administrator users.
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Within the Observability section you can configure alerting for events related to your environments and for Portainer itself.

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This feature is experimental and we recommend using this in non-production or test environments only at present as there may be unstable and evolving behavior.
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If the Observability feature has not been enabled, clicking on items in this section will take you to the [Settings](/2.33-lts/admin/settings/general.md#experimental-features) page where you can enable the feature. 

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[Alerting](/2.33-lts/user/observability/alerting.md)
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