Sending Report as an Alert Payload
You can send a detailed Report or an External Report (Visualization) to provide Users with more information on the Alert cause.
The starting point for Alert generation is always a Metric. Once you create a Metric to trigger Alerts, you can perform additional functions.
The whole process comprises:
- Building a Metric
- Configuring an Alert Rule
- Adding a Report to an Alert payload
1. Build a Metric
In order to build a Metric:
- Go to New > Metric > Create New
- Configure the Settings
To learn more about creating Metrics, refer to:
2. Create an Alert Rule
- Click the [Alert icon]
- Access Alert Creation Wizard
- Define your Alert type and criteria
- Go to Step 3 (Content)
- From Send with the Alert dropdown, select Other element
For more information, see Types of Alert Rules
3. Add a Report or External Report to payload
- Chose the element from the dropdown.
- Preview the Alert message to make sure it contains the required Report.