> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://checklyhq.com/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Integrating GitLab Alerts > Configure GitLab Alerts integration to receive failure, degradation, and recovery messages from Checkly Checkly integrates with [GitLab Alerts](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/operations/incident_management/alerts.html) and can deliver failure, degradation, and recovery messages to any project in your GitLab installation. More specifically, Checkly will: * Open new alerts when a check fails. * Close alerts automatically when a failing check recovers. * Alert when SSL certificates are about to expire. 1. First, create an **HTTP Endpoint**. Log in to GitLab, select a project workspace and go to "Settings" > "Monitor" and expand the "Alerts" tab and click the "add new integration" button. Then select "HTTP Endpoint" as the integration type. 2. **Choose a name** for your integration like "Checkly". setup checkly gitlab integration step 2 3. Save the integration **copy the displayed Webhook URL and Authorization Key**. It should start with something like `https://gitlab.com/...` setup checkly gitlab integration step 3 4. Log in to Checkly and navigate to [Alert Settings](https://app.checklyhq.com/alert-settings/). Click the "Add more channels" button, find GitLab Alerts on the list, and click "Add channel". setup checkly gitlab_integration step 5 5. Give the alert channel a name and **paste the Webhook URL and Authorization Key** in their respective input fields. You can now also tweak which alerts you want to be notified of and which checks or check groups should be subscribed to this channel. setup checkly gitlab integration step 5 > Note that we provide a preconfigured message payload but you are free to edit the payload and add more or different variables. Just click the "Edit payload" button and reference the "Help & variables tab". Congratulations! You have successfully integrated Checkly with GitLab Alerts!