Take Charge and Stay Ahead with Power Platform Monitor Alerts

Stop chasing problems and start preventing them. Monitor Alerts flips the script for Power Platform admins. Instead of manually checking dashboards, you can define custom health thresholds and get notifications when apps or flows start slipping. No guesswork, no endless refresh marathons—just proactive control. Built into the Power Platform admin center and requiring no setup, Monitor Alerts works across canvas apps, model-driven apps, cloud flows, and desktop flows, giving admins the power to act before users notice a problem.

Watch how easy it is to create an alert, catch a threshold breach, and take guided action—without living on dashboards.

Why Monitor Alerts Matters

When incidents hit, every minute counts. Historically, admins had to log into Monitor and scan metrics to catch issues. Monitor Alerts changes that by letting you define what “healthy” means and notifying you when reality drifts below that bar.

Benefits include:

Fewer surprises: Alerts only when conditions you care about are met.

Faster response: Go straight from alert to action.

Focus on fixes, not hunting for issues.

Where It Lives

Monitor Alerts are available in the following context:

Audience: Tenant administrators and environment administrators

Surface: Monitor in the Power Platform admin center

Availability: Public preview

Setup: None required—start using it immediately

Monitor already provides operational health metrics and actionable recommendations. Alerts add an early-warning layer so you can react before issues escalate.

What You Can Alert On

Monitor Alerts currently supports:

Canvas apps

Model-driven apps

Cloud flows

Desktop flows

Examples include:

App load times exceeding thresholds

Spikes in flow failures in critical environments

Degradation in availability for executive-facing apps

Error spikes in desktop flows

Quickstart (No Configuration Needed)

Open Power Platform admin center

Navigate to Monitor > Alerts

Create an alert: pick environment and resource type

Define condition: choose metric, set threshold, specify evaluation window

Add recipients (DL or named admins)

Save & test

Tune thresholds to balance sensitivity and noise

Best Practices

Align thresholds to SLAs: Start with business expectations.

Alert on trends, not blips: Use sustained windows to avoid alert fatigue.

Route smartly: Send to on-call DL; add context in alert description.

Pair with recommendations: Use Monitor’s insights to accelerate root cause analysis.

Review regularly: Adjust thresholds as usage grows.

Learn more: Power Platform Monitor Alerts

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