Alert Accuracy Dashboard

Alert Accuracy Dashboard

The Alert Accuracy Dashboard tracks your team's false positive rate over time and helps you identify which alert rules are generating noise. It's available on Professional and Team plans.

What It Shows

The Alert Accuracy Dashboard gives you:

Team-level metrics:

  • Overall false positive rate across all rules
  • Total alerts fired vs. meaningful incidents (where a real problem was confirmed)
  • Trend over time (improving or worsening)

Rule-level metrics:

  • False positive rate per rule
  • Alert frequency per rule
  • Suggested threshold adjustments based on historical data

How to Access It

  1. In the left sidebar, click Settings.
  2. Click the Alert Accuracy tab (visible on Professional and Team plans only).

Understanding False Positive Rate

False positive rate is the percentage of alerts that fired but were resolved quickly without meaningful action (indicating the problem self-resolved or wasn't real).

A rule with a high false positive rate is a candidate for:

  • Raising the threshold (the condition fires too easily)
  • Increasing the cooldown period
  • Switching to an uptime percentage rule instead of a per-check rule
  • Using the Auto-Tune feature

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