Summary

In this chapter, we learned that defining an alert strategy is a best practice to avoid alert spam and brings focus to what the important monitoring points and thresholds are in a business area. The alert strategy paired with the alert discovery capabilities brings unparalleled transparency and focus to an organization. We saw how to use a worksheet template to create an alert strategy and then walked through the pertinent functions in the Domo platform for monitoring and managing alerts. Truly, the platform enables us to individually create, publish, and share alerts that put the data to work for us rather than us having to work the data. We can also readily find and subscribe to alerts others have created. Alerts can bring peace of mind knowing that Mr. Roboto is always on duty surfacing triggers for things we know are important and discovering things we may not know in our data.

We learned ways to create alerts at both the card and data levels and discussed functional...