# Watching checks

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Instead of watching individual checks, you can create and subscribe to a [monitoring view](../../monitoring-views/overview/index.md).
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You can **watch** checks to be alerted when they fail. You can watch an individual check by expanding it and selecting the **Watch** button:

<img src="../../../assets/669bdbf49d28e8ba70e70b11b5a3f937f69ba283e26669f066137bae923fc828.webp" width=350 alt="You can choose to watch alerts and choose whether to be alerted for all failures, only critical, or turn alerts off." />

![Watching Individual Checks](../../../assets/45e5058334c4e2a01101e942db9d4aa9fe69f70de6e37eced1ff975cf8e9bb07.webp)

According to the configuration in the [**Rule Section**](../checks-reference/index.md) of the check:

* **Nothing** will never notify you of a failure, regardless of severity.
* **All failures** will notify you of any failures (both `Moderate` and `Critical`).
* **Only critical** will *only* notify you of any `Critical` failures.

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We recommend setting different thresholds for Moderate and Critical checks. Ideally Critical alerts should have looser bounds (e.g. Build duration check fails Moderately if build takes 5 mins and Critically if it takes 10 mins).
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## Watching all checks on a dataset

You can also take any of the above actions on all checks on a dataset by using the **Watch All** button:

![Watching All Checks](../../../assets/257db34585df411d66aa16ad2b7ea651b446a2d9fefa054f014038b6ca6282e7.webp)

## Pausing and removing checks

You can also pause or delete a check by expanding it and clicking the **More** button.

* **Pausing** a check will temporarily snooze its alerts for all watching/subscribed users.
* **Deleting** a check will permanently remove its configuration and schedule and it will need to be recreated if you want to watch it.