Card #3648 · Grafana
False positive alerts due to insufficient data or spikes
Alerts trigger immediately on new data series because there is not enough historical data to balance the average. Users struggle to configure alerts that ignore temporary spikes or handle new items without causing false positives.
Pain score
0.16/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.73distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.47upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.25willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 4 verified quotes
the alert immediately fires because it is essentially a new data series and there is no 9 minutes of zero-data to bring the average down
Is there some way to prevent an alert to trigger when there is not enough data for that series, or some other way to prevent false positives?
a single large spike can throw off the moving average
a single spike sets it off immediately
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