Receive Firebase alerts

Several Firebase products can send alerts for various product-specific reasons. Alerts are also sent to notify you about changes to your project state (like billing plan changes or quota limits) that may lead to service disruption or security risks.

In order to receive alerts, you must have the required permissions (see last section of this article).

Note that email-based alerts are only sent to individual email addresses, not to groupings of accounts like Google groups or Google Workspace accounts.

Set preferences for receiving alerts

If you can receive alerts, you can set your preferences for receiving many of these alerts via the Firebase console. These settings only affect your account for the project you select.

Here's how to set your preferences:

1. In the top-right corner of the Firebase console, click Firebase alerts > Settings.
2. Choose the project for which you want to set alert preferences.
3. For product-level alerts that are app-specific, click Edit, then choose the desired app.
4. Check the applicable boxes to choose how you'd like to receive alerts (if at all).

The toggle at the top of the page turns on/off most alerts for the project. However, no matter the setting of this toggle, your account will always receive alerts related to billing plan changes, exceeded quota limits, and service deactivation warnings.

Required permissions and possible roles to receive alerts

In order to receive alerts, you must have the required permissions.

If you don't have the required permission to receive an alert, contact a project Owner to assign you a role that grants you that access.

The Owner role contains all the required permissions to receive any alert. However, we recommend using the security principle of least privilege, so the following table lists the IAM predefined role(s) that enable you to receive alerts for specific purposes.

Product/Features	Required permission to receive alert	Role(s) that include required permission by default
Billing plan changes	N/A	Owner
App Distribution	firebase.projects.update	Owner Editor Firebase Admin
Authentication	N/A	Owner
BigQuery	firebase.projects.update	Owner Editor Firebase Admin
Crashlytics	firebase.projects.update	Owner Editor Firebase Admin
Cloud Firestore	N/A	Owner
Hosting Transfer quota alerts	N/A	Owner
Hosting Domain ownership re-verification alerts	firebase.projects.update	Owner Editor Firebase Admin
Performance Monitoring	firebaseperformance.config.update	Owner Editor Firebase Admin Firebase Quality Admin Performance Monitoring Admin
Realtime Database	N/A	Owner
Test Lab	firebase.projects.update	Owner Editor Firebase Admin