Setting Up A Traffic Alert

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August 21, 2018
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I've been trying to set up a basic traffic alert using the Alert Builder. I want to check daily visits to see if they drop below a certain threshold, I only want to look at Mon-Fri since the traffic normally drops to very low levels on the weekend. I'm having difficulty getting the filter to work so that it ignores the weekend traffic. Has anyone had issues with this?

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Best answer by Gigazelle

Since the segment is effectively setting weekend data to zero (weekend data is segmented out), it's firing the alert. There are two ways around this:

Create an alert using a calculated metric with an if/then statement. If weekday/weekend equals weekend, then use the manual number of 101; else use the visits metric. Weekend numbers would always avoid triggering the alert, since they would always report 101 (above your 100 threshold). This would not affect any reports; only this specific calculated metric which would only be used in context of alerts.
Another way to accomplish this would be to set 5 weekly alerts, one for each weekday.

Either one should work, it just depends on which would make sense to you and/or your organization.

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Pablo_Childe

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Your TRAC visits segment now is based on metrics that are causing it to qualify for rule to fire.

What is the segment made up of?

joew38481565Author

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I added the 'or' statement so I could have a filter for each weekday (partial screenshot below). The counter in the top corner says that the alert would have been triggered 30 times in the last 30 days. When I looked at the actual daily visits the only days where the the visits were less than 100 were on the weekends...so it really shouldn't have been triggered at all over that last 30 days. Not sure why this would be.