# Send one app's alerts to its own channel

> A routing rule that sends one source straight to its own destination, ahead of the default route.

Web page: https://infrainbox.app/docs/cookbook/route-by-app/

**You'll get:** one source's events skipping the default route and going straight to a destination of their own — everything else keeps working exactly as before.

## Before you start

- The source you want to split off already exists and is sending events.
- The destination you want its alerts to reach — a dedicated Slack channel, a second Telegram chat, whatever it is — already exists too.

## How rules work

Rules run top to bottom, first match wins: InfraInbox checks each rule against an event in order, and the first one whose condition matches decides where the event goes — unless that rule is set to keep evaluating the ones below it too. Anything no rule catches falls through to the [default route](https://infrainbox.app/docs/notifications/routing.md).

## 1. Add a rule

Go to **Notifications → Routing** (dashboard screen `/rules`) and click **New rule** (dashboard screen `/rules/new`).

## 2. Match the app

Under **When an event looks like this**, add a condition on the `source` field, `is`, and pick the source from the list. (If several sources belong to the same app — say, a few containers that all tag their events the same way — match on a metadata field or a tag instead: whatever field the events actually carry.)

## 3. Route it

Under **Do this with it**, choose **Open an incident**, then add the destination this app's alerts should reach. Leave **Keep evaluating the rules below and add their destinations** unchecked if you want this to be the *only* place these alerts go — check it if you want them to reach this destination *in addition to* whatever the rules below (or the default route) would otherwise send them to.

Save the rule.

## 4. Put it where it needs to be

New rules are evaluated in the order the list shows them, and you can drag a rule to reorder it. Make sure this rule sits above any other rule that would otherwise match the same events first — a rule further up always wins.

## Check it works

Open **Notifications › Routing** and pick the rule on the left: the coverage table on the right shows which destinations each severity reaches for a chosen source, so you can confirm this source now points where you expect before a real event arrives. Or use **Test an event** on the source's page, which opens [Test an event](https://infrainbox.app/docs/notifications/test-an-event.md) on a sample from that source; a rule's editor tests your unsaved draft the same way: the result shows exactly which destinations would fire and why.

Once you're confident, trigger (or wait for) a real event from that source and confirm it lands only where you intended.

## Next

- [Routing rules and the default route](https://infrainbox.app/docs/notifications/routing.md) — the full condition and action vocabulary.
- [Silence alerts during maintenance](https://infrainbox.app/docs/cookbook/maintenance-window.md) if what you actually want is to hold this app's alerts back temporarily, not reroute them permanently.