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@@ -291,6 +291,13 @@ Now you need to configure it:
 - add an alerting condition (must be True to fire)
 - Use the preview button to check that the alert would indeed be firing upon creation
 
+#### A more useful alert
+
+Since the goal of this alert is to test the end to end notification pipeline it is built to be a minimal example.
+
+A more useful one would be the following for monitoring uptime of a server based on it's metrics endpoint reachability:
+
+    absent(up{application="node",instance="myserver5496497897891561asdf.onion"})
 
 #### Keeping things Tidy