Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for checkpointing for delayed alert creation are provided. Embodiments include applying a checkpoint to an events pool having events with corresponding alerts that have been generated and not delivered and following a crash and loss of the corresponding alerts not recorded in an alert database, generating new alerts based on the events in the events pool having the checkpoint. In response to completing processing of a new alert, embodiments include determining whether the alert database has an entry corresponding to the processed new alert. If the alert database has an entry corresponding to the processed new alert, embodiments include delivering the processed new alert without reporting the processed new alert to the alert database. If the alert database does not have an entry corresponding to the processed new alert, embodiments include reporting the processed new alert to an alert database.