Intelligent Alerts overview

Intelligent Alerts allows for more granular control over alerts and integrates anomaly detection with the alert system.

Here is a video tutorial on Intelligent Alerts (5:34)

Overview

Intelligent Alerts let you:

There are three ways get to the Alert Builder:

Method

Details

Go directly to the Alert Builder

Components > Alerts

Use the keyboard shortcut in Workspace

Ctrl + Shift + A (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + A (Mac)

Select one or more freeform table line item/s

Right-click and select Create Alert from Selection. This opens the Alert Builder and pre-populates the appropriate metrics and filters applied from the table. You can edit the alert if needed.

The percent thresholds are standard deviations. For example, 95% = 2 standard deviations and 99% = 3 standard deviations. Depending on the time granularity you choose, different models are used to calculate how far away (how many standard deviations) each data point is from the norm. If you set a lower threshold (such as 90%), you get more anomalies than if you set a higher threshold (99.75%).

Anomaly lookback for alerts

If an alert uses anomaly detection, the training period varies based on the granularity selected for the alert.

See Statistical techniques used in Anomaly Detection for more information.