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title: Examples and common scenarios for action policies
description: Common action policy scenarios, including routing by severity, managing severity escalation, and controlling re-notification.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/tree/main/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/common-action-policy-scenarios
products:
  - Elastic Documentation
  - Kibana
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Experimental in 9.5
---

# Examples and common scenarios for action policies
Configure action policies in Kibana Universal Alerting for these common situations:
- [Route alerts by severity](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/tree/main/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/route-by-severity): Send critical and non-critical alerts to different workflows.
- [Manage severity escalation notifications](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/tree/main/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/severity-escalation): Control which notifications fire as an alert's severity changes.
- [Re-notify for persistently active alerts](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/tree/main/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/re-notification): Send follow-up notifications while an alert stays active without a status change.