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Setting Up a Custom Score-Threshold Alert

A score-threshold alert is a custom rule you create yourself, available on Pro and above — see the five alerts VerifyFiltering sends for what actually triggers one. This article covers setting one up.

Where to set one up

Custom alert rules live on your Notifications page, not a separate alerts page. If you're a team member scoped to specific groups rather than the whole fleet, you won't have access to this section at all — alerts apply account-wide with no per-group scoping, so there's no way to give a group-scoped member a filtered view of them.

The three fields

Alert when score drops below: a percentage from 1 to 100, defaulting to 70% for a new rule.

Applies to: either your whole fleet, or one specific device. If your account has no active devices yet, the specific-device option is disabled rather than left selectable with nothing to pick.

Alert frequency: a choice between "Instant" and "Daily digest." See below — this one doesn't currently do what its label suggests.

The frequency setting doesn't change anything yet

Whichever option you pick, "Instant" or "Daily digest," the behavior is identical: every rule checks hourly and can send at most one email per device every 24 hours. There's no batching — each device that crosses your threshold gets its own separate email the moment it's detected, never combined into a single daily summary. If you're choosing based on wanting a digest-style email instead of individual alerts, that option doesn't currently produce one.

Testing a rule

Each rule has a Test action that sends a real email immediately — not a preview, an actual send to your account's email address. This is gated the same way creating the rule is: available on Pro and above only.

If your plan drops below Pro

Your rule isn't deleted — it's kept exactly as configured, but stops firing until your account is Pro or above again. Upgrading brings it back without needing to recreate it.

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