Alert on insight for absence of activity
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Description
Feature request
Is your feature request related to a problem?
The insight alerts system is designed around the idea of a number going up or down or falling below a threshold. However, it doesn't appear to handle the absence of data.
Describe the solution you'd like
The ability to handle null or empty values for a day and alert on those.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Additional context
Ticket: https://posthoghelp.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/46630 (moved to PostHog: https://us.posthog.com/project/2/support/tickets/52565)
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue does not name files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing the insight alerts implementation and its existing threshold handling, then determine how daily null or empty values should be represented and evaluated. Done means an alert can reliably trigger when activity data is absent for a day.
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Assessment
- Domain
- analytics
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100