# Alert levels in kapacitor

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/alert-levels-in-kapacitor/5405>\
**Category:** Kapacitor\
**Tags:** kapacitor\
**Created:** [June 4, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/alert-levels-in-kapacitor/5405 "2018-06-04T10:35:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/alert-levels-in-kapacitor/5405/1 "2018-06-04T10:35:24Z")

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Is it possible to define a custom alert level?

I’m using crit and warn for a disk script, i have a dead man switch in the script which also uses the ‘warn’ level.

I use the level to change the message received so the warning emails currently display the dead man message.

Is it possible to define a custom alert level in the Kapacitor config? just “deadman” or something?