diff --git a/server/src/config/services.ts b/server/src/config/services.ts
index bbb42984e..49e6f3d5e 100644
--- a/server/src/config/services.ts
+++ b/server/src/config/services.ts
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ import StatusPage from "../db/models/StatusPage.js";
 import Team from "../db/models/Team.js";
 import MaintenanceWindow from "../db/models/MaintenanceWindow.js";
 import MonitorStats from "../db/models/MonitorStats.js";
-import Notification from "../db/models/Notification.js";
+import NotificationModel from "../db/models/Notification.js";
 import RecoveryToken from "../db/models/RecoveryToken.js";
 import AppSettings from "../db/models/AppSettings.js";
 import Incident from "../db/models/Incident.js";
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ export const initializeServices = async ({
 	const statusPageModule = new StatusPageModule({ StatusPage, NormalizeData, stringService, AppSettings });
 	const userModule = new UserModule({ User, Team, GenerateAvatarImage, ParseBoolean, stringService });
 	const maintenanceWindowModule = new MaintenanceWindowModule({ MaintenanceWindow });
-	const notificationModule = new NotificationModule({ Notification, Monitor });
+	const notificationModule = new NotificationModule({ Notification: NotificationModel, Monitor });
 	const recoveryModule = new RecoveryModule({ User, RecoveryToken, crypto, stringService });
 	const settingsModule = new SettingsModule({ AppSettings });
 	const incidentModule = new IncidentModule({ logger, Incident, Monitor, User });
diff --git a/server/src/db/modules/notificationModule.js b/server/src/db/modules/notificationModule.js
index 3c6edb54a..f45900184 100755
--- a/server/src/db/modules/notificationModule.js
+++ b/server/src/db/modules/notificationModule.js
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-// import Notification from "../../models/Notification.js";
-// import Monitor from "../../models/Monitor.js";
 const SERVICE_NAME = "notificationModule";
 
 class NotificationModule {
diff --git a/server/src/service/infrastructure/notificationProviders/INotificationProvider.ts b/server/src/service/infrastructure/notificationProviders/INotificationProvider.ts
index c9a20ff5f..12b28d907 100644
--- a/server/src/service/infrastructure/notificationProviders/INotificationProvider.ts
+++ b/server/src/service/infrastructure/notificationProviders/INotificationProvider.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-import type { Monitor } from "@/types/index.js";
+import type { Monitor, Notification, Alert } from "@/types/index.js";
 
-export interface IAlert {}
-export interface IMessageProvider {}
+export interface IMessageProvider {
+	buildAlert: (monitor: Monitor) => Alert;
+	sendAlert: (alert: Alert, notification: Notification) => Promise<boolean>;
+	sendTestAlert(notification: Notification): Promise<boolean>;
+}
diff --git a/server/src/types/alert.ts b/server/src/types/alert.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4725ebee8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/types/alert.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import { NotificationChannel } from "@/types/index.js";
+export interface AlertWebhookPayload {
+	body: Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+
+export interface AlertPagerDutyPayload {
+	routingKey: string;
+	monitorUrl?: string;
+}
+
+export interface AlertMatrixPayload {
+	friendlyName?: string;
+	homeserverUrl: string;
+	accessToken: string;
+	roomId: string;
+	monitorName: string;
+}
+
+export interface Alert {
+	channel: NotificationChannel;
+	address?: string;
+	subject: string;
+	message: string;
+	html?: string;
+	discordContent?: Record<string, unknown> | null;
+	webhook?: AlertWebhookPayload | null;
+	pagerDuty?: AlertPagerDutyPayload | null;
+	matrix?: AlertMatrixPayload | null;
+}
diff --git a/server/src/types/index.ts b/server/src/types/index.ts
index 9bffb3816..fda48f0c6 100644
--- a/server/src/types/index.ts
+++ b/server/src/types/index.ts
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ export * from "@/types/invite.js";
 export * from "@/types/recoveryToken.js";
 export * from "@/types/settings.js";
 export * from "@/types/notification.js";
+export * from "@/types/alert.js";