13. Alerts: Getting Started in Count

Alerts allow you and your team to be notified about your data by email or Slack even when you're not in a canvas. And it's a great way to ensure regular visibility of your work so that your analysis isn't at risk of gathering dust and being forgotten by. So alerts can be set up on individual cells or they can be set up on entire frames if you've added some context around those. Here with my frame selected, all I have to do is go to this icon and add alert. You'll notice in the right hand panel I'm now on the alerts tab. Under alerts, you will see any that you have in this canvas and this is our new one, our insight card. And below, we can see how this is configured. With alerts, we decide who gets alerted and how and we also decide on a schedule. If I click to manage subscribers, we can see that I'm currently the only subscriber, but I can enter names of colleagues or put email addresses in and I can subscribe other individuals. There's also information here that will let you know how you can connect Slack. And then in the schedule, we can change this. So this is not a regularly updated report. We're looking at monthly data. So perhaps I would like a monthly email on the first at a reasonable time in the morning. So that's the simple way to create alerts, but it's also worth knowing that alerts can be based on a trigger rather than just a regular schedule, And that can be explored in the settings menu of your alert. There's a trigger menu and you can associate any logic you would like with that. So typical use cases might be so you can be alerted when an important query errors or if you suddenly have duplicates in your data, for example.