Types of Monitorings

When you create a new alert rule on theAlertspage you are first asked to choose a monitoring type. Each type targets a different kind of information source and detection method. The available types are grouped below by category.

Documents and News

These rule types watch your connecteddata sourcesand fire whenever new or matching content appears.

Fresh Content

Triggers when:new content appears in a selected data source.

The rule periodically checks one or more data sources for the latest items. Any content that has not been seen before produces an alert. This is the broadest monitor — useful when you simply want to know about everything new in a source without any filtering.

Text Search in Fresh Content

Triggers when:newly appearing content matches a keyword or phrase.

Works likeFresh Contentbut filters results with a text search query. Only items that contain the search term produce an alert, reducing noise when you are interested in a specific topic within a busy data source.

New Content in Search

Triggers when:a keyword search returns a result that has not been seen before.

Instead of watching the latest items in a data source, this type issues a search query against the data source on each check and alerts on results that are new since the last run. Use this when the data source supports search but you still want alerts for net-new matching documents. You can also create an alert directly from theSearchpage — seeUsing Search Resultsfor details.

Semantic Search in Fresh Content

Triggers when:newly appearing content is semantically related to a prompt you provide.

Uses an AI language model to evaluate fresh content against a natural-language description of what you are looking for. Unlike keyword matching, semantic search understands meaning and context — so a prompt like"supply chain disruptions in the automotive industry"will surface relevant articles even if they do not contain those exact words.

Language Model (AI-Powered Web Monitoring)

These rule types use an AI language model to analyse the content of a web page on a schedule and decide whether a notification should be sent.

Website

Triggers when:the AI detects that specific information is present on a web page.

You provide a URL and a prompt describing what you want to monitor (for example:"Is there any mention of a price increase?"). On each check the page is fetched, analysed by the model, and an alert is sent if the condition described in the prompt is met.

Website Change Monitoring

Triggers when:the AI detects that specific data on a web page has changed since the last check.

You provide a URL and a description of the data you want to extract (for example:"product list, prices, stock status"). The rule compares the extracted data between runs and fires an alert whenever a difference is detected. Use this to track price changes, availability updates, or any structured information that evolves over time.

Dashboards

Dashboard Summary

Triggers on a scheduleand delivers a periodic AI-generated summary of a dashboard.

Select a dashboard, optionally supply an analysis question (for example:"What are the main trends this week?"), and choose an AI model. If you also select a text-to-speech (TTS) model, the summary is read aloud and attached as an audio file — available in news reader, podcast host, or executive briefing style. Use this to receive regular briefings from your dashboards without opening the application.

Surveys

Survey Attempt

Triggers when:a new survey response arrives for a selected campaign.

This rule is push-based: it fires immediately when a respondent completes a call-centre or web survey campaign, rather than on a periodic polling schedule. Use it to be notified in real time whenever new survey data comes in.

Time Series

Time Series Value(coming soon)

Triggers when:a time series metric crosses a defined threshold.

This type is planned for a future release and is not yet available.

For details on how to create, edit, and delete rules seeHandling Alerts. For information about how and where notifications are delivered seeNotifications.