# 🔔 Alerts and reports (/validator-monitor/alerts-and-reports)







[Validator Monitor](/validator-monitor/about-validator-monitor) can alert you when something happens to your validator, so you don't have to keep checking. It also sends a weekly and a monthly report.

<img alt="Banner: A cream smartphone, an orange bell sculpture and neatly stacked blank report cards sit beside a vigilant server operator." src="__img0" />

Notification settings control alerts, while the Reports list holds weekly and monthly updates (Figure 17.10).

<img alt="Notification settings with the alert validator and Allow notifications button, and the Reports list under Performance and Ranks" src="__img1" />

Figure 17.10: Notification settings with the alert validator and Allow notifications button, and the Reports list under Performance and Ranks

## Turn on alerts [#turn-on-alerts]

<Steps>
  <Step>
    ### Open Notifications [#open-notifications]

    In the top-right corner, open the menu and tap Notifications.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Choose the alert validator [#choose-the-alert-validator]

    Under Alerts for, check which validator the alerts follow. Tap it to choose a different one. The alert validator is set separately from the one you are viewing.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Allow notifications [#allow-notifications]

    If notifications are turned off for the app, tap Allow notifications and accept your phone's prompt.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Choose your alerts [#choose-your-alerts]

    Turn on the alerts you want. Stake changes, reports and invoices each have one switch.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What you get [#what-you-get]

Validator Monitor sends these notifications:

* Delinquency: your validator has stopped voting.
* Stake changes: stake is activating or deactivating.
* Skipped slots: your validator skipped leader slots.
* Epoch summary: a recap when an epoch ends.
* Bond alerts: the health of your stake pool bonds.
* Admission ticket alerts: your vote account can't cover the next 0.8 SOL Validator Admission Ticket, or it has no BLS key. Under Alpenglow, your validator needs both to vote.
* Invoice alerts: you have an unpaid [Stake-as-a-Service](/delegation/stake-as-a-service-saas) or V-pool ([Community Pool](/community-pool/how-to-pay-invoices)) invoice.
* Weekly and monthly reports: your stake and how it changed, with your stake and performance ranks.

The bell at the top of every tab opens your inbox. Every alert and report you receive is kept there, so nothing is lost if you swipe a notification away. Past reports are also listed in the [Performance tab](/validator-monitor/performance-tab) under Ranks.