FAQ
What exactly is included in this feature?
Here is the complete list of features that are included in this project:
- Define new Alert ("Big drop in purchases")
- Select a website on which the Alert is defined
- Receive an alert by email (email will contain Alert description + link to Matomo dashboard URL for the given website ID and period).
- Receive an alert by SMS (SMS will contain the Alert description and numbers that triggered the Alert)
- Receive an alert by Slack (Slack post will contain the Alert description and numbers that triggered the Alert)
- Select the Alert period: should it be daily, weekly or monthly?
- Select the report (Websites, Keywords, Countries, general stats)
- Define Metrics (visits, page view, avg. visit duration, Goal 1 conversions, total goal conversions, etc.)
- Define the Alert: when Visits decrease 50%, when purchases are more than 50 per day, etc.
What reports are available to the Alert system?
You can create an alert for any available report in Matomo. Plugins can define new reports which will be automatically picked up by Alerts.
What alert conditions are available?
You can create alerts for the following metrics:
- Visits, Visits Evolution, Unique Visits
- Actions, Action Evolution
- Pageviews, Pageviews Evolution
- Time on page
- Bounce rate
- Goal revenue
- Downloads
- and many more..
To define the condition you can select the conditions:
- Greater than, less than
- Equal, Not Equal
- Percentage increase/decrease