Manage Alerts

This applies to: Visual Data Discovery

Use alerts to alert your end users when a metric reaches a specified threshold. Use the Symphony user interface or API to manage your alert definitions. These definitions describe an alert condition, determine a schedule to evaluate the alert condition, and how notifications are handled when an alert condition is met. SeeManaging Alerts, Create an Alert Definition and Alerts API.

Prerequisites

• Configure the mail service for Symphony.

• Configure dashboard alert link redirection.

• Ensure intended recipients have valid email addresses specified in their Symphony user definitions.

• Grant the group privilege Administer Alerts or Create Alerts to users who you want to enable to create or administer alerts. Administrative users are granted these privileges' by default. See Group Privilege Reference .

• Grant users who receive alerts read access to the data sources used in alert conditions. If a user doesn’t have read permission for a data source will not receive any alert notifications. The corresponding alert messages also appear in the scheduler report and the job scheduler. See About Data Source Permissions.

See the following sections:

• Managing Alerts
• Create an Alert Definition
• Alerts API
• Create an Alert Definition - Alerts API
• Configure Dashboard Alert Links
• Alert Definition Object Structure
• Alert Definition Data Query Structures
• Alert Definition Notification Structure
• Alert Definition Examples
• Tracking Scheduled Alert Status