# Alerts not firing

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/alerts-not-firing/1054>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Created:** [May 5, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/alerts-not-firing/1054 "2017-05-05T15:08:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![abtreece](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/abtreece/32/326_2.png) [@abtreece](https://community.graylog.org/u/abtreece)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/alerts-not-firing/1054/1 "2017-05-05T15:08:27Z")

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i’m running 2.1 and having trouble understanding alerts on a stream. I have an alert configured to use the field content value condition and have it set as `Alert is triggered when messages matching <priority_level:"5"> are received. Grace period: 0 minutes. Not including any messages in alert notification.`  
which i would expect to send any message that matches, but it never fires

Am i misunderstanding how the alert works?