# Retrieve Alerts
source: https://developer.mastercard.com/riskrecon-api/documentation/use-cases/risk-mgmt-issue-rmdfn/alerting/index.md

Proactive [alerting](https://developer.mastercard.com/riskrecon-api/documentation/glossary/index.md#alerts) and notification of new issues is a key component of many organizations' strategy for managing third-party vendor risk on a continuous basis.

The [Alerting API](https://developer.mastercard.com/riskrecon-api/documentation/getting-started/index.md#alerts) notifies you of issues that occur within a vendor's environment. This API gives you the ability to continuously monitor vendors, respond appropriately as issues arise, and avoid potential consequences. Using proprietary scanning technology, RiskRecon regularly updates findings, hosts, and domains to account for changing company environments when a new analysis is published.

Within the **RiskRecon web portal**, you need to configure the rating-based alerts and work with your RiskRecon system administrator to set the issue-based alerting policy. An alert policy subscribes you to receive issue-based alerts customized to a vendor's inherent risk rating and the priority of issues for each security domain.

Once subscribed, the issue and rating-based alerting thresholds apply to your entire portfolio.

RiskRecon provides two types of alerting that can be used separately or in conjunction depending on the type of notifications that your organization desires and the type of action you plan to take as alerts are received.

The following endpoints are available in the `Alerting API` to help you retrieve issue-based and rating-based alerts:

|      API       |           Endpoint            |                                                                              Use Case                                                                              |
|----------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `Alerting API` | `GET Alerting Issues`         | [Retrieve Issue-based Alerts](https://developer.mastercard.com/riskrecon-api/documentation/use-cases/risk-mgmt-issue-rmdfn/alerting/issue-based-alerting/index.md) |
| `Alerting API` | `GET Alerting Rating Changes` | [Retrieve Rating-based Alerts](https://developer.mastercard.com/riskrecon-api/documentation/use-cases/risk-mgmt-issue-rmdfn/alerting/rate-based-alerting/index.md) |