Finetune alerts

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The significance tuning of alerts adjusts the minimum change in value to generate an alert. The defined change in value is calculated using the current and previous profile runs.

Significance tuning requires you to analyze your data and determine the appropriate level of sensitivity for an alert to ensure it generates more meaningful alerts and fewer false positive alerts. The alert is triggered only when necessary, proving an effective monitoring system and providing actionable insights.
Note: You can set the value in the Minimum change in value to generate alert text box while you configure confidence-based alerts only for Volume and Data Drift rules.
  • The value is provided in percentages, except for Textual Data, which is provided in numbers.
  • For the Distribution of value count, the provided value is the percentage difference. It is not calculated as the percentage of a percentage. For example, if the minimum change is set as 3% for the distribution of value count, and the last historical value is 12%, then the alert is generated only when the current value is greater than or equal to 15% (3% plus 12%) or less than or equal to 9% (12% minus 3%).
  • If the historical values are perfectly linear, then the expected value is used to calculate the significance threshold. For example, if the values were 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50, then the expected value is 60. If the significance threshold is set as 10%, then if the new value lies between 54 (60 minus 10% of 60) and 66 (60 plus 10% of 60), then no alerts will be raised.
  • If all historical values are zero, then significance thresholds are not applied.
  • If all historical values are 100% for completeness, then significance thresholds are not applied.
  • If values are historically increasing, and then the current one decreases, then significance thresholds are not applied. Similarly, this is true if the historical values were decreasing, and then the current one increases. This is not applicable to the distribution of value count.

Use these steps to set the significance tuning of an alert.

  1. On the main navigation menu, click Observability > Observers.
  2. Click Create Observer.
  3. In the observer rules pages, click the gear icon associated with the corresponding observer rule to set the change in the Minimum change in value to generate alert.
    Note: This parameter can be configured only for Volume and Data Drift rules.
  4. While configuring confidence-based alerts, type the value in the text box Minimum change in value to generate alert.
  5. You can remove the values that are not required.
  6. Click Save.