# Alerting Usage

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alerting-usage/3996>\
**Category:** Module Development\
**Created:** [February 14, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alerting-usage/3996 "2012-02-14T15:31:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![bryan\_cook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@bryan\_cook](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bryan_cook)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alerting-usage/3996/1 "2012-02-14T15:31:03Z")

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I’m looking over the Working with Platform Services section of the Programmer’s Guide, specifically the section on Alerting. All content relates to the usage of alerting with tag alarms. I was wondering, could I use the alerting system for other purposes? As an example, I’ll have a handful of configuration data for my module. Could I tie into the alerting system to raise an alert/alarm/whatever when a specific bit of configuration data was changed? Would this be considered a misuse of the alerting system, (assuming it’s possible) … ?

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alerting-usage/3996/2 "2012-02-14T15:56:57Z")

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No, certainly not. The alert doesn’t have to be associated with a tag. You can submit anything you want to the bus that Ignition can use.