Setting an Impact Value for specific measures enables you to gauge the business impact (in monetary terms) of an anomaly. Once the Impact Value is set, the next alert you will get from Anodot (via email) will include details of the business impact of the anomaly.
Note that you can also create alerts based on the Impact Value [currently under development]. For example, you will be able to receive notifications only when the anomaly has an impact of more than the defined monetary value.
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Defining the Impact Value
The following procedure describes the steps required to set an Impact Value.
- Navigate to INTEGRATIONS > Sources.
- From the list of displayed Data Sources, locate the relevant Data Stream for which you want to set an Impact Value.
- Click on the Data Stream name to display the stream settings and other information.
- Click the Impact tab, as shown below, to set the Impact Value for the stream measures.
- Click count (this option will change according to the stream measure) or Set Value to set the Impact Value.
- Define the following:
- Enter a monetary value in the Value box. Alternatively, you can drag the slider bar to define the relevant value. You can also enter a value in the Value box that is a fraction of the available slider bar values; for example, if you know that the value of each visitor to your website is worth $0.01, enter 0.01.
Note: The Impact Value is generated according to the number of measures Anodot finds. For example, if you define the Impact Value as $0.01 per website visitor and your website has 1000 visitors, the monetary (business) impact will be 1000 x $0.01, in other words, $10. - Select the relevant currency from the dropdown list.
- In the Direction Behavior section, you can define whether spikes and drops are good, bad, or neither.
- Enter a monetary value in the Value box. Alternatively, you can drag the slider bar to define the relevant value. You can also enter a value in the Value box that is a fraction of the available slider bar values; for example, if you know that the value of each visitor to your website is worth $0.01, enter 0.01.
- Click Set Impact Value. The next alert you will get from Anodot will include details of the business impact of the anomaly (see the following section). The alerts for this stream that are displayed on the Alerts Console page will also indicate the value of the business impact.
Receiving notification of the Business Impact
There are two scenarios for receiving email notifications of the Business Impact:
- After setting your Impact Value (see above), subsequent email alerts received from Anodot will also include a highlighted Impact section, as shown below.
- If the Impact Value has not been set, but your system is enabled with this feature, the generated emails will include the Impact section, with a Click here link to view and set your Impact Value.
When clicked, the Impact screen is displayed, indicating the monetary value of the Business Impact for the specific anomaly. You can adjust the slider bar value as required; when set, click Set Impact Value.
