---
title: "Alarm"
description: "the law or the level it reads, the threshold, who is told, the runbook"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/alarm
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Alarm

the law or the level it reads, the threshold, who is told, the runbook

[figure: Alarm is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | operations |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `reads` | `text` | yes |  |
| `threshold` | `json` | yes |  |
| `tells` | `[id]` | yes |  |
| `runbook` | `text` | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Alarm directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.