Data alerts

Data-driven alerts are one of the top capabilities exclusive to dashboards in the Power BI service. For many users and business scenarios, data-driven alerts are a high-value complement, or even a substitute, to dashboards and reports as they help to avoid frequently accessing Power BI to search for actionable information. For example, rather than opening Power BI in the browser or on a phone every morning and looking for red colors or certain KPI symbols, the user could view certain dashboards or reports only once a week and otherwise only respond to data-driven alert notifications sent via email.

With a standard card, KPI, or gauge visual pinned to a dashboard, a data-driven alert can be configured either in the Power BI service ...

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