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With alerts, you can specify conditions in your data that, when met or exceeded, trigger a notification to be sent to specific recipients at a desired frequency.
Alerts overview
Alerts are set onquery-basedorLook-linkedtiles ondashboards. Based on the alert'sfrequency, Looker checks whether each alert's conditions have been met or exceeded; if so, Looker notifies users of this change.
In addition to creating alerts, users can view, duplicate, and follow some alerts created by other users, depending on theirpermissions. Alert conditions will also take into account anydashboard filtersthat exist when the alert is created.
Alerts documentation
See the following links for documentation that is relevant to the Admin role and to all Looker users.
Alerts documentation for Looker admins
Looker admins play critical roles in configuring alert permissions so that Looker users can create and follow alerts to receive alert notifications.
Configuring alerts for Looker usersdiscusses how to configure permissions for creating, following, and managing alerts.Alertsdiscusses theAlertspage in theAlerts & Schedulessection of theAdminpanel, where admins can see and manage all active and inactive alerts for the Looker instance.
Alert Historydiscusses theAlert Historypage in theAlerts & Schedulessection of theAdminpanel, which lists information about all active alerts that are running, complete, or failed.
Alerts documentation for Looker users
Viewing alertsdiscusses how to view alerts on a dashboard tile.
Following alertsdiscusses how to follow alerts to receive notifications when alerts are triggered.
Viewing alerts that you own or followdiscusses theManage Alertspage in the Looker UI, which shows a list of all the alerts that a user owns or follows, or for which they are listed as a recipient, depending on theiralerts permissions.
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