Alerting conditions

An alerting condition defines when a rule's event should become an alert. In the application, alerting conditions are configured on a rule and shown as thresholds in several detail views.

One rule can have multiple conditions. Each condition can carry its own name, severity, message, trigger, and notification destinations—for example, a warning at one level and a critical alert at another.

Trigger behavior by rule type

• Instance rule: alert on any occurrence, or after a specified number of events within a time window.
• Duration rule: alert when the measured duration exceeds the configured time.
• Derivation rule: alert when the derived numeric value is greater than or less than a configured boundary.

Configure a condition

1. Open Configure → Rules.
2. Open the rule and edit it.
3. Select Add alerting condition.
4. Enter the trigger, severity, and message.
5. Choose the people and connected notification destinations that should receive it.
6. Save the rule.

Create conditions for signals that need a response. Leave informational or high-volume rules monitoring-only so their events remain available for analysis without creating alert fatigue.

SPC controls manage their statistical alerting separately. See Statistical process control.