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Incidents Digest lets you send a scheduled summary of incidents to your team in addition to real-time alerts. Your team receives a consolidated digest on a daily or weekly cadence covering all relevant incidents in that period. This is useful for reducing noise, providing management-level visibility, or keeping stakeholders informed without overwhelming them with individual alerts.
Incidents Digest tab in Alert Rules

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How it works

Digest rules are configured under Alert Rules → Incidents Digest tab. Each rule defines:
  • When to send the digest (cadence: daily or weekly, at a specific hour)
  • What incidents to include (filters by tag, owner, status, model, or category)
  • Where to send it (one or more destinations such as a Slack channel or email)
At the scheduled time, Elementary collects all incidents that match the rule’s filters since the last digest was sent, and delivers them as a single message.
Incidents digest email

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Creating a digest rule

Navigate to Alert Rules in the left sidebar and select the Incidents Digest tab. Click Create digest rule to open the configuration drawer. The filters, categories, and destinations are configured the same way as in Alert Rules. The one addition unique to digest rules is cadence.

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Cadence

Choose how often the digest should be sent:
  • Daily — sent once a day at the hour you choose.
  • Weekly — sent once a week on the day and at the hour you choose.
The time is in UTC.
Digest cadence selector

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Managing digest rules

Once created, digest rules appear as cards in the Incidents Digest tab. From each card you can:
  • Edit the rule to change any configuration.
  • Activate / Deactivate the rule without deleting it.
  • Delete the rule.
Digest rule action menu

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Relationship with alert rules

Digest rules are independent of Alert Rules. You can have both real-time alert rules and digest rules active at the same time — they are evaluated separately. A common pattern is to use real-time alert rules for critical on-call channels and digest rules for broader team summaries.