Dashboards and alarms SQL alarms basics

246. SQL alarms basics

This lesson is based on theLive dataset.

Now that we’ve talked about calculating metrics, timelines and trends let’s see how can it all work for SQL alarms. 🚨

💡 SQL alarms are an essential part of any BI tool. Instead of monitoring hundreds of dashboards everyday manually, alarms allow our data to notify us if something requires our attention. With time, your company will accumulate thousands of dashboards and alarms become the only way we can monitor data. 📊

An example of a SQL alarm – 0 signups or purchases in the past 24 hours, 0 visits to a certain page in the past X hours, an error...

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