There is no prioritization to the assignment of alarm or maintenance notifications by the iQ Series Gas Analyzer instruments, however, the way that those events generate email notifications is different. Upon power up, the analyzer waits 2 hrs to clear any alarms prior to sending any email notifications. Post start-up sequence, an alarm needs to be active for 5 continuous mins at which time an email notification will be generated and sent. The instrument will reflect an alarm condition on the status bar at any point that the instrument meets those alarm conditions, but an email will not be generated until any single alarm condition has existed for 5 continuous mins. Maintenance notifications generated by either predictive diagnostics or the embedded preventive maintenance schedule behave in the same manner, except that the alert must be active for 24 hrs prior to an email notification being sent.