# Alert When Pump Pressure Is Too High (https://logable.app/use-cases/water-pump-over-pressure)

Get an alert when discharge pressure reaches ninety percent of a pump's rated maximum, so a closed valve is found before a seal fails.

## Equipment
One pump, with a pressure transmitter on the discharge line and a rated maximum on the device.
- **Water pump** pressure · flowRate

## The reading
- **Metric:** pressure (bar)
- **Source:** the transmitter on the discharge line
- **Cadence:** every ten seconds

## The problem
Transfer Pump 1 reads 5.67 bar against a 6 bar rating, overnight, with nobody in the plant room. The seal is the part that finds out first.

## The alert
**Over pressure** (warning)
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Fires at 90% of the maximum pressure you set for this pump, and clears once pressure drops below 80% of that. That gap is enough that normal pressure swings won't reopen the alert.
Add it from the pump's Triggers tab. It needs the pump's maximum pressure, because the level it fires at is a share of that number.

## The response
- **Sent by:** push, email and the in-app inbox
- **Who is told:** the rule's recipients
- **What happens:** Somebody finds the closed valve or the blockage before a seal or the casing fails. The alert carries the pump and the pressure.
- **Stops when:** somebody acknowledges

## On your dashboard
A Logable dashboard showing pressure, flow and power tiles for three pumps, with tank levels beside them

## Pump operations
Pressure and flow over the week, with volume and uptime per pump, as a report you can schedule.

## Frequently asked questions

### How do I get an alert when pump pressure is too high?
Open the pump's Triggers tab, select Browse presets, and add Over pressure. Set the pump's maximum pressure on the device first: the alert fires at a share of that number.

### What pressure does the pump over pressure alert fire at?
Ninety percent of the maximum pressure you set for that pump, and it clears once pressure drops below 80 percent of it. Three agreeing readings in each direction, so one spike does not fire it.

### Who gets told when a pump is over pressure, and what stops the reminders?
The rule's recipients, by push, email and the in-app inbox. Acknowledging stops the reminders. If nobody acts, the escalation ladder tells the next person on the list.

## Related
- [Pump monitoring](https://logable.app/solutions/pump-monitoring)
- [how to detect pump failure remotely](https://logable.app/docs/guides/equipment/detect-pump-failure-remotely)

## Put this alert on your own pump
Set the pump's rated pressure once, and add the preset from the Triggers tab.