When you receive a data alert, click the notification to view more information about the
alert or log in to Tableau Next to manage your alerts. If the alert was sent by Agentforce or by
Tableau Next model context protocol (MCP) in Slack, you can also ask follow-up questions.
Depending on the type of alert, notifications are sent to desktop, mobile, or Slack. You can
modify or delete your alerts at any time.
Required Editions
| User Permissions Needed |
| To edit or delete data alerts: |
Tableau Unmetered Consumer or Tableau Next Consumer or Tableau Unmetered Self-Service Consumer or Tableau Next Self-Service Consumer
permission set |
To use data alerts, your Salesforce admin must enable Tableau Agent: Data
Alerting. For more information, see Enable the Data Analysis and Data Alert Management Topics for Tableau Next.
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To manage your alerts sent by Agentforce or Tableau Next MCP, select Manage Data
Alerts from the Tableau Next Following page. Or open a metric and click
Manage Alerts to see scheduled alerts created for that specific
metric.
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For metric alerts, you can change the schedule for your alert or edit the value that
triggers the alert from the Manage Alerts window. For alerts created
with Agentforce or Tableau Next MCP, use natural language to tell the agent how you want to
change the alert.
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Select Run Alert to check the conditions of a data alert at any
time.
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To delete an alert, click the dropdown arrow next to your alert’s name, and select
Delete.
If the alert was created by Agentforce or Tableau Next MCP, reply in natural language and
specify how you want the alert changed. Or ask Agentforce or Tableau Next MCP to stop sending
that type of alert.
To see the configuration of your alert, click Debug from the
Manage Alerts window.
