Source: https://docs.amadalis.ai/insights/alerts/

# Set and inspect an analytics alert

In the site admin, open **Insights** > **Analytics** to work with analytics [alerts](https://docs.amadalis.ai/reference/glossary/#alert). Use this guide to choose a condition and inspect whether its notification was sent.

Checked against the product’s code on 7 November 2026.

An alert evaluates recorded analytics; it cannot detect an event the site never collected.

1.  Open **Insights**.
2.  Open **Analytics**.
3.  Open **Reports**.
4.  Open a question with a supported [measure](https://docs.amadalis.ai/reference/glossary/#measure).
5.  Choose **Set an alert** beside the question heading. Its measure is already selected.

## Choose the condition

**Threshold** is the limit you choose for a fixed comparison. **The baseline** compares with usual variation. A [baseline](https://docs.amadalis.ai/reference/glossary/#baseline) compares with the previous six windows of the same length and only acts once at least three of them have data.

1.  Choose **A threshold** or **The baseline**.
2.  Choose **Above** or **Below**.
3.  Set **Threshold**, or **Times the usual swing** for a baseline comparison.
4.  Set **Window in days**.
5.  Review the selected measure and condition.

If the site has no email connection, an email alert shows **Channel silent** and sends nothing until one is connected.

1.  Choose **By email** or **On this screen**.
2.  For email, enter **Email address**. This is the address the alert will use.
3.  Choose **Create this alert**.
4.  Read its card, including the destination.
5.  Approve the intended alert. Nothing is watched until you approve.

## Read an evaluation

The alert list shows its recent evaluation and firings. **Evaluate now** uses the same evaluation path as the scheduled check. Read the evaluated window, observed value and condition together.

A firing is a recorded condition match. Its notification state reports the sending attempt; it does not prove that a message reached a mailbox. A saved alert also does not establish that every scheduled run has succeeded.

To stop an alert:

1.  Choose **Stop this alert**.
2.  Read its card.
3.  Choose **Approve & stop watching**.
4.  Read the receipt and its Undo.

The alert is removed; the record of times it already fired is kept, and Undo on the receipt puts the alert back exactly as it was. To change an alert, stop it and create a new one. Keep the intended window and delivery state with any exported or shared result.

## Your next step

Use [Analytics reports and sources](https://docs.amadalis.ai/insights/analytics-reports-and-sources/) to inspect the activity behind the measure you chose for the alert.