Threshold-based alerting

[annikaschmid]

Users have asked for a functionality to create threshold-based alerts, e.g. when the conversion rate drops below a certain threshold.

Open questions:

• In what format do people want these alerts? Email? Slack?

We'd love to hear user feedback, as well as ideas for stretch goals or implementation.

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[voarsh2]

Notification UI as well possibly?

[pimterry]

I'd find this useful! Both for conversion rates and overall totals (if errors today > X, if visitors/hour < Y).

As a stretch goal, it'd be useful to be able to alert on major changes in breakdowns. For example, I have a graph showing traffic to my site by day broken down by referrer - if there's a major change in who's referring traffic (a bunch of new traffic from a new source, or a previous major source of traffic disappearing) I'd love to be able to get alerts about that, even if the overall traffic total doesn't shift. Harder to define I imagine, but I think there's value in there.

In what format do people want these alerts? Email? Slack?

Personally: primarily email, and then webhooks. Email is quick & easy to get started, and medium-term webhooks would be the best way to integrate this into the rest of my stack (slack, pagerduty, internal dashboarding, "reboot the server automatically if load time gets too high", whatever).

[nik-418]

Slack alert based on insight threshold triggers 👍

[mindofmar]

I need this. Other product analytics platforms like Mixpanel and Amplitude offer this. There's no reason Posthog also shouldn't. Please prioritize this.

[marandaneto]

Consider a mobile companion app that sends push notifications as well, see request.

[GalDayan]

Same as the alert per action - alerts per insight by threshold.

[williamlmao]

+1, but offer email + slack please. We use discord instead of slack, so email notifications would be great.

[Slawikus]

Basically this would give observability capabilities to PostHog. One can use the platform not only for product analytics, but also as alerting tool if some of the metrics go down or up too rapidly. Highly anticipated feature!

The way how notifications/alerts are delivered is of less importance, it can be a simple email.