diff --git a/docs/user/alerting/alert-types.asciidoc b/docs/user/alerting/alert-types.asciidoc
index 993d815c37f71..5983804c5c862 100644
--- a/docs/user/alerting/alert-types.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/user/alerting/alert-types.asciidoc
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ For domain-specific alerts, refer to the documentation for that app.
 * <<geo-alerting, Maps alerts>>
 * <<xpack-ml, ML alerts>>
 
+[NOTE]
+==============================================
+Some alert types are subscription features, while others are free features.
+For a comparison of the Elastic subscription levels,
+see {subscriptions}[the subscription page].
+==============================================
+
+
 include::stack-alerts/index-threshold.asciidoc[]
 include::stack-alerts/es-query.asciidoc[]
 include::maps-alerts/geo-alert-types.asciidoc[]
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/alerts/README.md b/x-pack/plugins/alerts/README.md
index aab848d4555d2..83a1ff952cb5d 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/alerts/README.md
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/alerts/README.md
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Table of Contents
 	- [Alert types](#alert-types)
 		- [Methods](#methods)
 		- [Executor](#executor)
+		- [Licensing](#licensing)
+		- [Documentation](#documentation)
+		- [Tests](#tests)
 		- [Example](#example)
 	- [Role Based Access-Control](#role-based-access-control)
 	- [Alert Navigation](#alert-navigation)
@@ -124,6 +127,19 @@ For example, if the `context` has one variable `foo` which is an object that has
 }
 ```
 
+## Licensing
+
+Currently most of the alerts are free features. But some alert types are subscription features, such as the tracking containment alert.
+
+## Documentation
+
+You should create documentation for the new alert type. Make an entry in the alert type index [`docs/user/alerting/alert-types.asciidoc`](../../../docs/user/alerting/alert-types.asciidoc) that points to a new document for the alert type that should be in the proper application directory.
+
+## Tests
+
+The alert type should have jest tests and optionaly functional tests. 
+In the the tests we recomend to test the expected alert execution result with a different input params, the structure of the created alert and the params validation. The rest will be guaranteed as a framework functionality.
+
 ### Example
 
 This example receives server and threshold as parameters. It will read the CPU usage of the server and schedule actions to be executed (asynchronously by the task manager) if the reading is greater than the threshold.