Send Pulse alert upon any increase of a value after it’s exceeded its threshold

Hey,

I'm all for this idea, and for more pulse alert customisations in general, though I thought I'd share a workaround I've found very useful which may work in this case.

I had a similar issue as you before. I wanted to send alerts when data entered the dashboard that met certain criteria. The way I got around it was by changing calculation the pulse is monitoring.

Instead of '# of events', change your indicator to be '# of events within the last refresh interval'. In other words, the indicator is now asking "have there been any new events since the last time?" To do this:

1. Set your Elasticube to refresh at some regular interval (e.g. hourly).
2. Build a new field which compares the event time to the current time, and if it's within the interval (e.g. within an hour) set as 1, else set as 0.
3. Change your value calculation to only include rows flagged as 1.

And we're done. The pulse's value will be > 0 whenever new data came in last. Be sure to untick 'Notify only once after a condition is met' under the pulse's additional options to ensure consecutive alerts are sent.