Alert configuration properties

Property
Description
Alert Type
The available options are Count (default), Mean, Minimum, Maximum, and Ratio. See Alert types.
Event
Click the <Select Event> link to select the event that is the trigger for the alert. The Event Selector is displayed. Click the triggering event. The event name is inserted into the Configuration tab.
  • Only events whose Display in Portal flag was sent to true are available for selection. See Manage Events - Events tab.
  • To remove the selected event, click the X icon next to the event name.
Alert Threshold
The value at which an alert message is created.
  • Threshold values must be greater than zero. For Top Mover, Top Mover report, and event ratio alerts, you may enter decimal values. For other alert types, entered values must be integers.
  • For Mean alerts, this field accepts values as integer percentages, representing percentage deviations of a sample value from an AlertService calculated mean value.
Direction
The available options are Positive (default) and Negative.
  • A negative alert results in alerting when a value less than the Alert Threshold was recorded.
Alert Interval
Time in minutes to accumulate the event values for alerting. The interval is a rolling window of time.
  • Values range from 1 minute to a maximum value of 1440 minutes (24 hours).
    Note: Since the alert service operates on time-based intervals, you cannot configure alerts to fire on each page or for each occurrence of the underlying event.
Alert Reset
The time interval in minutes after an alert of this type was created and no other alerts of this type can be created. After the reset period expired, the alert counter is reset back to zero.
Enable Warnings
When selected, warning alerts are generated when the specified warning thresholds were reached.
Warning Threshold
The value at which a warning message is created. For Mean alerts, this field accepts values as integer percentages, representing percentage deviations of a sample value from an AlertService calculated mean value.
  • Threshold values must be greater than zero. For Top Mover, Top Mover report, and event ratio alerts, you may enter decimal values. For other alert types, entered values must be integers.
Warning Reset
The time interval in minutes after a warning was created and no other warnings can be created. An alert can be created during this interval.