How to use criteria when scoping alerts

This article explains how to filter alerts using advanced criteria when using the alerts tile. For full details of the options available when configuring an Alerts tile, such as filtering, see How to use the Alerts tile.

For more information about the basic scoping options see How to scope tiles

For advanced criteria for scoping objects see How to use criteria when scoping objects.

Scope Criteria

The Criteria option under Scope -> Advanced allows you to more precisely filter alerts by creating a specific expression to refine the list of alerts.

For example, Owner = 'sales\cash' will return only alerts where the Cash user has been assigned as an owner of the alert:

Name LIKE '%failed%' would only display alerts where the alert name includes "failed":

Criteria will work with any configured Filters, but when using an expression in Criteria you may prefer to set the Filters options to Any so filtering is only occurring from one source.

Useful operators

The table below shows some of the common operators and wildcards you can use when defining a criteria expression.

See the following Microsoft pages for more information on the syntax and a full list of and operators:

Criteria Expression Syntax

Alert Properties

Property names are case sensitive, i.e. it must be Name, not name; ResolutionState not Resolutionstate. Useful properties for use in Criteria expressions include:

See the Remarks section in the following Microsoft article for valid property names in alert criteria:

MonitoringAlertCriteria Class

Example Criteria

The following table provides you with some example filters that are commonly used by dashboard authors.

Many of the examples can be achieved purely by using the Filters section, but they are included here to demonstrate the syntax and use of properties.