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Alerts are only sent if your data changes ??
Unfortunately this is by design 🙂
Whenever the data is refreshed, a check is performed if a data alert is met.As the docs mention:
Alerts only work on refreshed data. When data refreshes, Power BI looks to see if an alert is set for that data. If the data has reached an alert threshold, Power BI triggers an alert.
We now have the inverse of this issue - Alert Notifications are not being sent even though the number of records is greater than the alert tolerance. Because the records have not changed since last the last refresh.
More details;
• we generate approx 500 Data Quality reports per week. Approx 60% of our reports have no records on any given week. So we have set our alert tolerance to greater than 0, as only the reports with records need to sent.
• Issue is now reports with records (i.e. greater than 0) are not being sent if the records have not changed from the previous week. We still need these reports to be sent - as these issues need to be addressed.
Question - any guidance on how we can set Power BI to send a notification is there are records in a report, even if this is the same number of records as the week prior?
Thank you.