  IceCube real-time alerts allow for rapid follow-up observations of likely
astrophysical neutrino events, enabling searches for multi-messenger
counterparts. The Enhanced Starting Track Real-time Stream (ESTReS) is a
real-time extension of the Enhanced Starting Track Event Selection (ESTES), a
high astrophysical purity muon-neutrino sample recently used by IceCube to
measure the astrophysical diffuse flux. A set of computationally cheap cuts
allows us to run a fast filter in seconds. This online filter selects about 100
events per day to be sent to Madison, WI via satellite where the full ESTES
event selection is applied within minutes. Events that pass the final set of
cuts (ESTReS + ESTES) will be sent out as real-time alerts to the broader
astrophysical community. ESTReS's unique contribution to the current real-time
alerts will be events in the southern sky in the 5 TeV - 100 TeV range. We
expect about 10.3 events per year which average 50% astrophysical purity. In
this talk I will report the status of the ESTReS alert stream in the context of
the IceCube real-time program.
