alerts timeline

Author: AbbyMSFT

articles/azure-monitor/alerts/alerts-manage-alert-instances.md

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 title: Manage your alert instances
 description: The alerts page summarizes all alert instances in all your Azure resources generated in the last 30 days and allows you to manage your alert instances.
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 08/03/2022
+ms.date: 07/11/2023
 ms.reviewer: harelbr
 ---
 # Manage your alert instances
-The **Alerts** page summarizes all alert instances in all your Azure resources generated in the last 30 days. You can see all types of alerts from multiple subscriptions in a single pane. You can search for a specific alert and manage alert instances.
+The **Alerts** page summarizes all alert instances in all your Azure resources generated in the last 30 days. You can search for a specific alert and manage alert instances.
 
-There are a few ways to get to the **Alerts** page:
+You can get to the **Alerts** page in a few ways:
 
 - From the home page in the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com/), select **Monitor** > **Alerts**.  
 
@@ -24,8 +24,21 @@ The **Alerts** summary pane summarizes the alerts fired in the last 24 hours. Yo
 
 To see more information about a specific alert instance, select the alert instance to open the **Alert details** page.
 
-:::image type="content" source="media/alerts-managing-alert-instances/alerts-page.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the Alerts summary page in the Azure portal.":::
+    :::image type="content" source="media/alerts-managing-alert-instances/alerts-page.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the Alerts summary page in the Azure portal.":::
 
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+
+## View alerts as a timeline (preview)
+
+You can see your alerts in a timeline view. In this view, you can see the number of alerts fired in a specific time range and filter the alerts by severity, resource, and more. You can also select a specific time range to see the alerts fired in that time range.
+
+To see the alerts in a timeline view, select **View as timeline** at the top of the Alerts summary page.
+
+    :::image type="content" source="media/alerts-managing-alert-instances/alerts-view-timeline.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the view timeline button in the Alerts summary page in the Azure portal.":::
+
+The alerts are grouped by the time they were fired. You can see the number of alerts fired in a specific time range and the number of alerts fired in the last 24 hours. You can also see the number of alerts fired in the last 24 hours by severity.
+
+    :::image type="content" source="media/alerts-managing-alert-instances/alerts-timeline.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the Alerts timeline page in the Azure portal.":::
 ## Alert details page
 
 The **Alert details** page provides more information about the selected alert: