---
title: "Send Test Alert"
method: POST
path: "/api/monitoring/test-alert"
tags: ["health"]
---

# Send Test Alert

`POST /api/monitoring/test-alert`

Send a synthetic alert email so SMTP and recipient wiring can be verified.

Worth having because the alert path is, by design, exercised only when
something is already broken. Discovering then that ``ALERT_EMAIL`` had a
typo is the worst possible time.

On failure the transport's own explanation is returned rather than a generic
"not sent", which previously sent the operator to the container logs to
learn whether the cause was a typo, a rejected password, or a blocked port.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- object

## Changes

- **2026-08-14** `e202091512bc` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/mozilla-ai/apis/clawbolt/changes/api/monitoring/test-alert/post.md)

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