# Rules Operations You can create notification rules to get notification messages like Email, SMS etc for the performance counter states.\ \ Before explaining about notifications, you should learn about action and rule definitions:\ \ **Notification Action:** Defines recipient address for notification messages, like email address or phone number etc.\ **Notification Rule:** Defines which counter states VirtualMetric creates a notification message and send it to assigned actions.\ \ In this section, you will learn following operations: * Adding a new rule * Editing rule settings * Adding Dependency * Filtering rules * Assigning actions to rules * Removing a rule At next section, you will learn action operations. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.virtualmetric.com/settings/notifications/rules-operations.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.