---
id: nova/alerts/history
title: "Alert History & Delivery Status"
description: "Check whether your Smart Alerts have been firing — and whether those alerts actually reached you. Just ask Nova; no command or setup needed."
product: nova
canonical: https://zeroauthoritydao.ai/docs/nova/alerts/history
related: [nova/alerts]
tokens: 661
---

# Alert History & Delivery Status

Ask Nova which of your Smart Alerts fired recently and whether each was delivered, with status, attempts and the last error, to answer "why didn't I get my alert?". Read-only and private to you.

Check whether your Smart Alerts have been firing — and whether those alerts actually reached you. Just ask Nova; no command or setup needed. This page is the **audit** half of a pair: to review, toggle, snooze, or delete alerts, see [Managing Your Alerts (Web Dashboard)](https://zeroauthoritydao.ai/docs/nova/alerts/manage.md).

> [!NOTE]
> This is **self-serve and private**: Nova only ever shows you the activity of **your own** alerts. Available on Discord, Telegram, and the web widget.

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## What You Can Ask

Ask broadly to list recent fires across **every** alert you own, with their delivery status:

> _"Show my alerts that fired recently"_

Or scope to a single alert by its ID (find IDs with _"list my alerts"_):

> _"Show history for alert #7"_

Nova answers conversationally — no wizard, no `/command`.

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## What You'll Get

| Field               | Description                                                                |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Alert**           | Which alert fired (name + type)                                            |
| **Triggered at**    | When the alert's conditions were met                                       |
| **Delivered**       | Whether the alert was actually sent to you                                 |
| **Platform**        | Where it was delivered (Discord / Telegram / widget)                       |
| **Delivery status** | `pending`, `delivered`, or `dead` (gave up after retries)                  |
| **Attempts**        | How many delivery attempts were made                                       |
| **Last error**      | If a delivery failed, the reason — useful for "why didn't I get my alert?" |

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## "Why didn't I get my alert?"

If an alert's conditions were met but nothing reached you, the delivery status explains why:

- **delivered** — it was sent; check the platform/channel it went to (and your Do-Not-Disturb / snooze settings).
- **pending** — it's queued and will be retried shortly.
- **dead** — delivery failed repeatedly and was given up on; the **last error** shows the cause (e.g. the bot was blocked, or DMs are closed).

> [!WARNING]
> A **snoozed** alert or active **Do-Not-Disturb** window can suppress delivery even when the alert fired. Ask _"is my whale alert snoozed?"_ or _"what are my DND settings?"_ to check.

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## Related

- [Managing Your Alerts (Web Dashboard)](https://zeroauthoritydao.ai/docs/nova/alerts/manage.md)

To create, edit, pause, or clean up alerts, just tell Nova what you want (_"create a whale alert for STX over 100k"_). History only **reports** activity — it never changes your alerts.