# Email alerts when your app slows down or errors

> A short digest when something slows down or errors. Silence when everything's fine.

Get a brief email when your app hits rate-limit slow-downs or errors — and nothing at all when it's quiet.

Once your app is live, monitoring usually means one of two bad habits: checking a dashboard
you'll eventually stop checking, or wiring up alerting that emails you daily to say nothing
happened. Either way, the one time something actually goes wrong, you hear about it from a user.

VibeKit takes the opposite stance: quiet when it's fine, loud exactly when it's not.

## See what your app is actually doing

The **Metrics** tab gives you a quick read on activity — what your app has been reading and how
much of it is served instantly from the [edge cache](/products/vibekit/features/edge-cache). One glance tells you
whether the cache is doing its job, no log digging required.

## A digest, not a drip

Open **Metrics → Email alerts**, enter an email, and choose how often you want a summary — once a
day, say. At that cadence you get a short digest of any rate-limit slow-downs or errors in the
period. If the period was quiet, you get nothing at all. No "all systems normal" filler, no
training yourself to ignore your own alerts.

## Know exactly what you'll get

Click **Send test** to see exactly what a digest looks like before you subscribe. And email is
never the only record: recent alerts are always visible in the admin, whether or not anything has
been sent.

## Built to catch the things that matter

The most common thing a digest will tell you about is an Airtable automation firing cache
refreshes too aggressively. VibeKit slows it down automatically and flags the failing run inside
Airtable, so your site stays up either way — the digest just makes sure you hear about it without
going looking (see [flood protection](/products/vibekit/features/flood-protection)).

## Questions this page answers

- airtable rate limit alert email
- monitor airtable api usage
- email alerts for website errors
- how do i know if my airtable app has errors
- see how much of my site is served from cache

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