In this article, I will explain how to create an alert so you will get a notification alarm and/or an email. In the other hand, if you are interested to include more people for the notification, read Power Automate: include other people to a Power BI alarm and if you have an email list in an excel file, read Power Automate: Power BI alerts to be sent by email from an excel file based on condition. Before to start, to create alerts, there are 2 conditions:

• They can be created only from a dashboard and not from a report (read my tutorial Part 4: create the dashboard to know how)
  
• They can be created only for gauges, KPIs and cards
  

Anyway, one easy way to know if visuals can have it or not, by clicking on the “3 dots”, if the visual can have it, you should see the “manage alerts” option:

If not, it will not appear:

Alerts can be created either from the workspace or from the app but alerts created in the workspace will not appear in the app and vice versa. Which one is better ? Just take note that the ones created in the workspace, only you can modify them so the ones in the app, the audience can interact with.

By clicking on “manage alerts”, I will get the picture on the left. I will click on “add alert rule” then change the needed fields (right picture):

Once done, just click on “save and close”. From now on, each time the data is refreshed and the number are above the threshold, I will get a notification on Power BI Service:

And since I have checked the “send me email, too” option, I will also receive this email: