---
title: "Create Alert"
method: POST
path: "/organization/usage/alerts"
tags: ["usage-alerts"]
---

# Create Alert

`POST /organization/usage/alerts`

## Request body

- CreateUsageAlertRequest — Create one policy-scoped usage alert.
  - `policy_id` string, uuid, required
  - `threshold_type` 'percentage' | 'count', required
  - `threshold_value` integer, required
  - `channel` 'email' | 'slack_dm', required
  - `recipient_target` 'organization_admins' | 'organization_admins_and_event_actor' | 'explicit_users', required
  - `enabled` boolean

## Response `201`

Successful Response

- UsageAlertResponse — One usage alert rule and its V0 notification subscription.
  - `id` string, uuid, required
  - `organization_id` string, uuid, required
  - `policy_id` string, uuid, required
  - `threshold_type` 'percentage' | 'count', required
  - `threshold_value` integer, required
  - `enabled` boolean, required
  - `created_at` string, required
  - `updated_at` string, required
  - `subscription` UsageAlertSubscriptionResponse, required — Notification subscription attached to a usage alert rule.
    - `id` string, uuid, required
    - `channel` 'email' | 'slack_dm', required
    - `recipient_target` 'organization_admins' | 'organization_admins_and_event_actor' | 'explicit_users', required
    - `enabled` boolean, required

## Other responses

- `422` — Validation Error

## Changes

> 57 revisions in range; 9 not diffed.

- **2026-09-24** `2fc80b73eb41` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/traversal/apis/fastapi/changes/organization/usage/alerts/post.md)

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