Administrators managing Power Platform environments can now take advantage of a preview feature that lets them create alert rules to oversee the health and performance of their apps and flows. This capability empowers tenant or environment admins to define thresholds for critical metrics and receive timely notifications when things take a turn.
Smart Alerting: What You Can Do
- Alert rules are custom conditions you configure—such as a usage spike or performance degradation—that watch over your environments.
- When these conditions are met, a triggered alert fires, and you can examine which resources are involved and get suggestions for remediation.
Why Use These Alerts?
- Catch unexpected behavior—for instance, a sudden surge in app launches within the default environment.
- Spot health issues early and partner with creators/makers to resolve them.
- Monitor production performance—like slow-loading apps—so your user experience stays smooth.
Who Can Access This Feature?
- Only tenant or environment administrators can set up or manage alerts.
- Alerts are limited to Managed Environments, and the feature is only available in the new Power Platform admin center.
Setting Up an Alert—Step by Step
- Log into the Power Platform admin center.
- Head over to Monitor, then go to the Alerts section.
- Click + Alert rule to begin.
- Provide:
- A name for the alert.
- The product to monitor (Power Apps or Power Automate).
- The type of product (e.g., Canvas app, Model-driven app, Cloud flow).
- The scope—such as monitoring all canvas apps in a specific environment.
- The specific environment (ID) to monitor.
- The metric for evaluation (e.g., execution time, error rate).
- A logical operator (Is Under, Is Over, Equals) for the threshold.
- A value for that threshold.
- The severity level (Low, Medium, High).
- The notification preference, including up to five email recipients or opt‑out if you prefer manual monitoring.
- Click Save—the system evaluates the alert immediately and sets it to run daily as new data comes in.
When Alerts Go Off—What Happens Next
If you’ve chosen email notifications, alerts will be delivered from PowerPlat‑noreply@microsoft.com. The email includes a Go to Alert button, directing you to a full overview of triggered alerts and affected resources. Each resource panel provides metric history and improvement suggestions (if applicable).
Keep in Mind: Key Considerations
- Though there’s no limit to how many alert rules you can create, only 25 alert rules can be active at one time—so review and clean them up as needed.
- Alerts run on a daily cycle, evaluating the latest 24-hour aggregate data—so it’s not real-time.
Blake Scarlavai 
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