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Alerts are only sent if your data changes ??
Alerts are only sent if your data changes. After setting an alert for every hour, email notifications are being sent regardless of the threshold changes. Data refresh is every 50 minutes. Th...
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.
I wouldn't be so sure that this is by design
From the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/service-set-data-alerts
Considerations and troubleshooting
- Alerts aren't supported for card tiles with date or time measures.
- Alerts only work with numeric data types.
- Alerts only work on refreshed data. They don't work on static data.
- Because alerts are only sent if your data changes, you don't receive duplicate alerts for an unchanged value.
- Alerts only work on streaming datasets if you build a KPI, card, or gauge report visual and then pin that visual to the dashboard.
- You can create up to 250 alerts across all your models.