How Notification Channels Respond to Alert States

How a notification channel in B2C Commerce responds to an alert is based on the alert state. An anomaly detection alert fires once when an anomaly is detected and doesn’t track whether a condition persists or is cleared.

Notification Channel Actions
State Meaning Notification Channel Actions
New The system detects the alert condition for the first time.
  • Sends an email notification.
  • Posts a message to the configured Slack channel.
  • Posts an Adaptive Card to the configured Microsoft Teams chat or channel.
  • Triggers a new incident in PagerDuty.
Ongoing The alert condition remains active during subsequent system checks.
  • Sends a follow-up email notification.
  • Posts an update to the Slack channel.
  • Posts an Adaptive Card to the configured Microsoft Teams chat or channel.
  • Doesn’t create a duplicate incident in PagerDuty by using the deduplication key.
Resolved The alert condition clears because log hits fall below your configured threshold.
  • Sends a resolution email notification.
  • Posts a resolution message to the Slack channel.
  • Posts an Adaptive Card to the configured Microsoft Teams chat or channel.
  • Closes the corresponding PagerDuty incident.