Alerts

Set up organization-wide rules to target groups of monitors to raise alerts in specific channels.

Alerts is the rule-based system that routes Data Quality incidents to Slack, Email, Webhook, or MS Teams. It replaces the old model where notification settings lived on each monitor individually — instead, org-wide rules decide who gets notified and when, so a single rule change can cover thousands of monitors at once.

Who this guide is for

Data governance users — data stewards, governance leads — configuring alerts themselves, with no engineering background assumed.

What this guide covers

• How an alert rule is put together, and the concepts behind it

• How to build a rule step by step, exactly as it appears in the rule builder

• How rule evaluation actually behaves, including what happens when more than one rule matches

• Worked examples covering the most common routing patterns

• How to manage rules day to day, and a troubleshooting checklist for "why didn't I get alerted?"

How to use this guide

Read How alert rules work first — it explains Rule, Trigger, Scope, Filters, and Actions once, so the step-by-step walkthrough that follows makes sense without re-explaining each term. Then use Worked examples as templates for common patterns you can adapt.

How alert rules work