Alerts in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center

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    • Denise Vangel-MSFT

Use the alerts features in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center to view and manage alerts for your Office 365 organization, including managing advanced alerts as part of Office 365 Cloud App Security alerts.

How to get to the Office 365 alerts features

Alerts in Office 365 are in the Security & Compliance Center. Here's how to get to the page.

To go directly to the Security & Compliance Center:

  1. Go to https://protection.office.com.

  2. Sign in to Office 365 using your work or school account.

  3. In the left pane, click Alerts to see the alerts features.

To go to the Security & Compliance Center using the Office 365 app launcher:

  1. Sign in to Office 365 using your work or school account.

  2. Click the app launcher in the upper left corner, and then click Security & Compliance.

    Can't find the app you're looking for? From the app launcher, select All apps to see an alphabetical list of the Office 365 apps available to you. From there, you can search for a specific app.

  3. In the left pane, click Alerts to see the alerts features.

Alerts features

The following table describes the tools that are available under Alerts in the Security & Compliance Center.

Tool Description
Manage alerts
Use activity alerts to send email notifications to yourself or other administrators when users perform specific activities in Office 365. Activity alerts are similar to searching the Office 365 audit log for events, except that you'll be sent an email message when an event that you've created an alert for occurs.
Manage advanced alerts
Use the Manage advanced alerts feature of Office 365 Cloud App Security to set up policies that can alert you to suspicious and anomalous activity in Office 365. After you're alerted, you can investigate situations that are potentially problematic and, if needed, take action to address security issues.