With Alerts, Tableau sends you an email when a condition is fulfilled in your data after a refresh. For example, if you have a visualization with daily sales, you can configure an Alert to receive an email when the sales are above or below a certain amount. An Alert is a great way to allow you to do something other than check your data every day on Tableau Server. You can set an Alert on any visualization as long as it has an axis.
Be sure that the SMTP server is configured and that you have specified a correct email address to receive Tableau Server emails.
To create an Alert, click on the axis, then on the Alert button on the toolbar. A new window opens to configure the Alert, illustrated here:
Alert configuration window
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