Configuring alerts on Elasticsearch Filebeat events is crucial for promptly identifying issues with Logstash and Kibana systems. By using Filebeat with Axiom, organizations can simplify log event usage, build dashboards, and track SSL traffic, enhancing their monitoring capabilities. This tutorial guides users through setting up triggers and alerts on Axiom by configuring Filebeat and Elasticsearch log data, establishing datasets, and generating ingest tokens. Monitors and notifiers play a key role in detecting and alerting users to threshold breaches, with notifications sent via Email, Slack, PagerDuty, or Webhook. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of setting up Filebeat queries, selecting the appropriate aggregation type, and configuring alert frequency and range, ensuring users receive timely notifications of any changes or errors.