About the Dynamic Thresholds app
ITRS Analytics Platform Compatibility
The Dynamic Thresholds app version 1.1.1 requires ITRS Analytics Platform version 2.14.1 or higher for proper functionality.
The Dynamic Thresholds app is designed to help you monitor your systems more intelligently and reduce alert fatigue. Traditional static thresholds often generate unnecessary alerts when normal fluctuations occur, overwhelming teams and diverting attention from real issues. In contrast, the Dynamic Thresholds app provides adaptive, data-driven anomaly detection by learning from historical data and automatically adjusting to expected behavior. This ensures that alerts focus on statistically significant deviations, allowing you to respond only to genuine anomalies.
Use the Dynamic Thresholds app to set up and manage dynamic thresholds for various metrics. The app leverages a deviation model that learns the historical behavior of your metrics, automatically establishing and adjusting flexible upper and lower boundaries.
The app also offers:
- Configurable warning and critical severity levels for alert escalation.
- Adjustable training period to fine-tune adaptability to recent patterns.
- Noise reduction features, including metric smoothing and configurable alert delays, to minimize false positives.
From the app’s main screen, you can:
- View a list of all existing dynamic threshold configurations.
- Edit an existing dynamic threshold configuration by clicking on a row.
- See the status of each configuration. With an admin account, you can toggle the Enabled checkbox of a configuration directly from the table to activate or deactivate a configuration.
- Identify the name, metric, group, number of entities, who created the configuration, and last modified date for each configuration.
- Search for any string field in the configurations.
Define a new dynamic threshold configuration Copied
Dry run results Copied
Once a metric is selected, a chart is automatically generated on the right-hand side of the screen. This chart shows the metrics and thresholds for any matching entity within the last 24 hours.
Use this chart to preview the behavior of your dynamic threshold configuration. Changing the selected metric or adjusting the thresholds and training window sliders will automatically update the chart.
Note
Toggle the Use raw values button if you want the chart to display the metric line using raw data instead of downsample data. Raw values can only be viewed while editing a configuration and will not persist upon saving.
Click Analyse Results to simulate the configuration for matching entities.
The Dry Run Results table gives you an overview of how the configuration impacts most entities. Click on a row to preview the dynamic threshold behavior for a specific entity. You can then adjust your configuration based on these results.
After adjusting your configuration, a banner will appear indicating that the results are no longer valid. Click Refresh Results to show the updated results based on the new configuration.
