# What Is an Alarm Notification? How Many Types of Alarm Notifications Are There? How Can I Configure an Alarm Notification?

Alarm notifications are email or SMS messages that are sent out when an alarm status is Alarm, OK, or both.

You can configure Cloud Eye to send or not send alarm notifications when you create or modify an alarm rule.

Cloud Eye can:

- Send you email notifications.
- Work with Auto Scaling to trigger the system to automatically add or remove servers.

Parent topic: Alarm Notifications or False Alarms