# Different alarm settings for different web\_log conf

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/different-alarm-settings-for-different-web-log-conf/1174>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** agent, agent-health\
**Created:** [April 13, 2021, 11:07am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/different-alarm-settings-for-different-web-log-conf/1174 "2021-04-13T11:07:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/different-alarm-settings-for-different-web-log-conf/1174/2 "2021-04-19T14:52:04Z")

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Hey @DeWaRs1206,

There are a couple of things to unpack here. Let me try to help you out, but before we delve into this, I just wanted to welcome you to our community 🙂

For starters, even though you are monitoring your apache server, we are not actually using the [apache collector](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/apache), but the [web\_log collector.](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/weblog) They are 2 different collectors who can monitor apache in a different manner, the first by reading stats from apache directly, while the web\_log by reading the logs produced by apache.

> If you want to learn more about collectors, take a look at our FAQ about it: [What are collectors and how do they work?](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/what-are-collectors-and-how-do-they-work/1189)

Now, what we need is to edit the default alarms for the `web_log` collector and modify it to our liking.

To modify the health file, you will need to run `sudo ./edit-config health.d/web_log.conf`. The script is smart enough to see that you haven’t yet edited that health file, thus it will show you the default one and then it will save any changes you make.

> **[Alerts and notifications | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/alerting)**
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> The Netdata Agent is a health watchdog for the health and performance of your systems, services, and applications. We've

Now, it’s time to dive into the syntax for alarms in Netdata. Although it may seem daunting at first, it is really simple and really powerful.

> **[Configure alerts | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/alerting/health-configuration-reference)**
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> Netdata's health watchdog is highly configurable, with support for dynamic thresholds, hysteresis, alert templates, and

I am not sure what you want to modify exactly, so I can’t help you any further. If you tell me which alarm you want to modify exactly and how, we can work on the syntax together here 🙂

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