As a admin user, add an account, ie Mark, under Audience -> Accounts -> Listing -> Add an account Create a Product i.e. Test API, an application plan. Set a limit of 2 requests per minute. Create an application with account Mark and application plan in step 2 Go to Applications -> Settings -> Usage Rules and enable all alerts from 50% to 100%, see screenshot Alerts.png.  Suspense account Mark by using workaround in https://issues.redhat.com/browse/THREESCALE-8248 Suspense user under Mark account. Audience -> Accounts -> Listing -> Mark -> User. Promote the change Integration -> Configuration Make a request to Test API until hit the limit. Observe that notifications are still received on the mail box of the Temp Mail account of User Mark   An example email:   Dear mark, Your application 111 is above 50% limit utilization of Hits per minute: 1/2. Monitor your application usage at https: //<xxx>.3scale.net/buyer/stats. Red Hat