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<@U088WCP3B4P> can I make sure that alerts through `edr monitor`  are sent to slack once and only once?

Yes, by default, Elementary’s `edr monitor` is designed to send each alert to Slack only once. When an alert is sent, it is marked as sent in the alerts table, and subsequent runs of `edr monitor` will not resend the same alert unless certain conditions are met (such as a new dbt invocation or suppression interval expiration). This ensures you do not receive duplicate notifications for the same issue. If you are experiencing duplicate alerts, it may be due to re-running dbt or specific configuration issues, but the intended behavior is to send each alert just once [see this explanation](<https://slack.com/archives/C02CTC89LAX/p1664962599452549>), [and here](<https://slack.com/archives/C02CTC89LAX/p1683068624240939>).  If you want to further control alert frequency, you can use features like the suppression interval to prevent alert fatigue, which will "snooze" repeated alerts for a configurable period [details here](<https://slack.com/archives/C02CTC89LAX/p1696945250119199>).