Alerts

Alerts is a module designed to assist the account owners with monitoring and audience/segment feed control.

Alerts will warn user when by email and in the interface when an audience and or a segment allocation is below or above a value in a timeframe set on the alert.

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The module is composed of three major parts:

• filters: Sort the monitoring table based on specific parameters and or search for some specifics items

• Alert monitoring table: List existing alerts

• Create alert: Button opening a modal to create alerts

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Filters

The following filters are available to scroll through the alerts:

• Search: scroll based on a keyword or id. the search type can be change to label only or id.

• Status: display the table with active, inactive, silence or all status

• Object type: filter based on the object on which alerts are working. it can be account, audience, custom segment or all

• Alert type: Sort on the alert setting. It can be treshold or trend

• Triggered: Sort based on alerts reaching an alert status or not. It can be set to yes, no or both

Table

The Alerts table list all existing alert on the account with a default sorting being triggered alerts first then sort by created time.

The table has 9 columns:

• Type: The object type on which the alert is applied. It can be Account, Audience or Custom segment.

• Id: the ID of the object on which the alert applies. it is empty in case of alert set on the account.

• Label: name of the alert.

• Created by: who created the alert.

• Triggered at: last time the alert was triggered if ever triggered

• Status: State of the alert. It can be Active, Inactive or Silent.

• Alert type: The variation type of control on the alert setting. It can be a Treshold or a Trend.

• Value: Worded description of the alert setup.

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Triggered alert are highly visible with the full row displayed in red and a warning on the left of the row. A hover the warning display the explanation of the trigger.

Two button are available on the right side of each row on the table when hovering a row:

• edit: option to edit the alert

• delete: delete the alert

Create Alerts

Alert can be created via the create alert button at the top right of the Alert page, or directly on the Top Audience/ Segment when hovering a row.

The Alert creation has the following parameter:

• Object type: The object to observe. It can be Account, Audience or Segment. it is a mandatory field.

• Selected object (only if object type is Audience or Segment): the object on which the alert applies. it is a mandatory field.

• Label: Name of the alert. it is a mandatory field.

• Email: Creator of the alert. it is a mandatory field.

• Email Cc: Users to notify when an alert triggers or clears. It is an optional field.

• Alert type: The variation type to use to monitor the object. Treshold is a hard integer capping, while trend is a percent capping

• Observation period: Window of reference for the alert.

  • Case treshold: It can be over the last 30 days, or in the last 24 hours

  • Case trend: it can be the last day, a single hour or a range of hour

• Reference day: only available with trend. Defines which day should be used as a reference. It can be the last day or 7 day ago.

• Below: Available with treshold only. It is an optional field defining the bottom limit at which to trigger the alert. the value is an integer.

• Above: Available with treshold only. It is an optional field defining the top limit at which to trigger the alert. the value is an integer.

• Increase change: Available with trend only. It is an optional field defining the top percent of increase at which to trigger the alert. the value is a float.

• Decrease change: Available with trend only. It is an optional field defining the bottom percent of decrease at which to trigger the alert. the value is a float.