EspressReport ES supports two types of so-calles KPI alerts - Alert watching and alert monitoring.
Alerts are basically conditions for KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). If the KPI alert conditions are met (for example: the KPI value is too low or too high), the alert will 'trigger'. You can configure alerts for charts, reports or maps. Then you can monitor or watch the alert.
Watching alert is as easy, as arranging the templates (report, charts...) into a dashboard and then choosing which alerts you want to watch. Then you just watch the dashboard, or publish it and allow somebody else to watch it. If at least one of the watched alerts triggers, the report, chart or map will start flashing and the value that triggered the alert will be highlighted.
Or you can set up alert monitoring which notifies you about triggered alerts even when there is nobody physically watching the dashboard. When a monitored alert is triggered, the report/chart will be exported and either saved to disk, uploaded to an FTP or sent by email to pre-defined email recipients. Also, every time an alert is evaluated a new log record is added to Alert Monitoring Log. Log record is created even when no alerts were triggered during the evaluation which allows you to watch all of your KPIs over long periods of time.