The 'alerts' functionality in the Power BI service let's users set an 'alerts' based on a threshold. When using a KPI the target value is copied as the default threshold but when the target changes, the threshold will not be adjusted. In a scenario where you would use a YTD value to compare to a YTD target and want to receive a notification based on that adjusted target this should be updated automatically. For example: Year-month: 2017-01 Actual_YTD: 500.000 Target_YTD: 550.000 When pinned to a dashboard the 'alerts' is set based on the copied value from the target: 550.000 Data changes Year-month: 2017-01 Actual_YTD: 560.000 Target_YTD: 550.000 'alerts' is fired Data changes Year-month: 2017-02 Actual_YTD: 650.000 Target_YTD: 600.000 'alerts' should be fired based because the actual value has gone over the target again