event-notifications.md

copyright	lastupdated	keywords	subcollection
years 2025, 2025	2025-04-17	instructlab, rhel ai, notifications	instructlab

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Enabling event notifications for {{site.data.keyword.short_name}}

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You can send service lifecycle events that are generated by {{site.data.keyword.instructlab_short}}, such as project creation or deletion, to an {{site.data.keyword.en_short}} service instance your account. {: shortdesc}

You can then use {{site.data.keyword.en_short}} to send notifications of those events to other users, or human destinations, by using email, SMS, or other supported delivery channels.

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For more information, see Getting started with {{site.data.keyword.en_short}}.

Delivering notifications to select destinations

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After you enable notifications, create topics and subscriptions in {{site.data.keyword.en_short}} so that alerts can be forwarded and delivered to your selected destinations.

For a complete list of supported destinations, see the {{site.data.keyword.en_short}} documentation. {: tip}

Email notifications

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You can use the {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} email service as a delivery channel for {{site.data.keyword.instructlab_short}} event notifications. Create an {{site.data.keyword.en_short}} subscription between an existing topic and the {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} email service to forward your alerts to various recipients by email.

To receive detailed information about an event notification in your email, select the Add notification payload option when you create an {{site.data.keyword.en_short}} subscription. Your email displays the notification payload details that are associated with the event. {: tip}

Webhooks

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You can configure a webhook destination so that an incoming notification can be consumed programmatically by an app or service. For more information about setting up webhooks, check out the {{site.data.keyword.en_short}} documentation.