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# Overview
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This guide helps users to enable notifications for important service-related events such as:

- Scaling operations
- Pause/resume operations
- System state change
- Backup/restore failures
- Dataslice full

Refer to the [List of event types supported](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netezza?topic=nzalert-manage-event-rules) for a comprehensive list of events.


This feature supports following notification methods:
- Email
- AWS SNS (for AWS users)
- Azure Event Grid (for Azure users)

## Event setup process
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The event setup process for NPSaaS customers involves the following three steps:

### 1. Configure notification infrastructure
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- **AWS users**: Refer to [nzalert for AWS](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/netezza?topic=netezza-nzalert_aws_setup&format=markdown) for infrastructure setup.
- **Azure users**: Refer to [nzalert for Azure](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/netezza?topic=netezza-nzalert_setup&format=markdown) for infrastructure setup.
- **Email Notifications**: No additional infrastructure setup is required.

### 2: Create notification methods
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- Follow the instructions on the [Create notification method](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netezza?topic=nzalert-notification-event-rule-management-nps-events).

### 3: Define event rules
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- Refer to the [Create Event Rule](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netezza?topic=nzalert-manage-event-rules) to configure event rules.