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title: Examples and common scenarios for action policies in the experimental alerting system
description: Common action policy scenarios for the experimental alerting system, including routing by severity, managing severity escalation, and controlling re-notification.
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4116/explore-analyze/alerting/experimental-alerting-system/action-policies/common-action-policy-scenarios
products:
  - Kibana
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Experimental
  - Elastic Stack: Experimental since 9.5
---

# Examples and common scenarios for action policies in the experimental alerting system
This page covers common situations you encounter when setting up action policies in the experimental alerting system and explains how to configure them to get the behavior you expect.
- [Route alert episodes by severity](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4116/explore-analyze/alerting/experimental-alerting-system/action-policies/route-by-severity) describes how to direct critical and non-critical alert episodes to different workflows based on severity level.
- [Manage severity escalation notifications](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4116/explore-analyze/alerting/experimental-alerting-system/action-policies/severity-escalation) explains how action policies match and re-match alert episodes as severity shifts, and how to control which notifications fire.
- [Re-notify for persistently active alert episodes](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4116/explore-analyze/alerting/experimental-alerting-system/action-policies/re-notification) covers how to configure action policies so a workflow sends follow-up notifications when an alert episode stays active without a status change.