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Sharing, scheduled reports & embedding — found from sitemap — Metabase
Checked for Metabase on 1 Nov 2026
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- https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/questions/alerts
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Alerts delivery channels Report an error
“Set up an alert to send the results of questions to people via email or Slack, or to a webhook.”
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Alerts questions only Report an error
“Alerts are for questions only. If you instead want to get the results of a dashboard sent to you, check out dashboard subscriptions.”
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Alerts prerequisite Report an error
“To start using alerts, an administrator will need to have set up at least one of the following notification channels. Email Slack Webhooks”
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Alerts webhook permission Report an error
“Only admins and people with settings access can use webhooks.”
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Alerts trigger types Report an error
“When a question returns a result - for any question. When a time series crosses a goal line - for a line, bar, or area chart displaying a time series. When a progress bar reaches or goes below its goal - for progress bars.”
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Alerts scheduling Report an error
“Select when you want Metabase to check the results: by the minute, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or on a custom schedule that you set using the Quartz cron syntax.”
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Alerts one time Report an error
“When setting up an alert, if you select the option to Only send the alert once, Metabase will send that alert once, then delete the alert, never to alert anyone ever again.”
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Alerts test Report an error
“Then hit the Send now button to trigger the alert.”
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Alerts goal line requirements Report an error
“Requires a bar, line, or area chart with a goal line.”
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Alerts progress bar Report an error
“Progress bar alerts Requires the progress bar visualization.”
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Alerts editing permissions Report an error
“Everyone can edit alerts that they’ve personally set up (but not alerts set up by other people).”
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Alerts admin permissions Report an error
“Admins can edit and delete any alert. This can’t be undone, so be careful! Admins can add or remove recipients on any alert, even ones that they didn’t create themselves.”
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Alerts admin bulk management Report an error
“Admins can bulk manage alerts per person from the People menu in Admin settings. Admins can bulk manage all alerts in the instance in Monitor > Alerts management.”
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Alerts email notifications Report an error
“Metabase will email you when: You set up an alert You’ve been unsubscribed from an alert One of your alerts has stopped working You unsubscribed from an alert An admin added you to an alert”
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Alerts question deletion Report an error
“If the question is deleted, Metabase will delete any alerts set up for that question.”
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Alerts creator deactivation Report an error
“Alerts will continue to work even if the person who set up the alert no longer has an active account.”
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Alerts goal line removal fallback Report an error
“If a goal line is removed from the question powering a “Goal line” alert, the alert will change to a “Results” type alert.”
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Alerts admin visibility location Report an error
“Admins can view a list of all alerts and dashboard subscriptions that people have set up in your Metabase in the Usage analytics collection.”
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Alerts embedded exclude links Report an error
“Metabase omits links to Metabase items in alerts sent from embedded questions.”
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Alerts custom visualization fallback Report an error
“a question that uses a custom visualization falls back to the default visualization for its results.”
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Alerts unsubscribe Report an error
“Everyone can view and unsubscribe from all alerts they receive”
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Alerts slack channel rename Report an error
“If you rename the channel in Slack, but you want Metabase to continue to send alerts to that renamed channel, you’ll need to update the alert in Metabase to point to the new channel name.”
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Alert branding removal Report an error
“Removing Metabase branding from alerts See Remove Metabase branding from exports.”
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