Alert Categories, Priorities and What Actually Triggers Them

Jacob

Jacob

Last updated on Aug 27, 2026

The AI Insights screen is TrackIQ telling you what it noticed without being asked. Nothing on it is vague: every alert states the rule that produced it.

Prefer to watch? Eighty seconds on how to read the screen and which alerts to do first.

The headline counts

Total alerts split by severity

Four figures across the top: Total Alerts, then a split into Critical, Warning and Informational.

Critical is the number worth reacting to. It is the one that decides whether you keep reading the screen or go and fix something.

Where the alerts are coming from

Alerts grouped by category

Alerts by Category splits everything four ways.

Category Watches Typical volume
SP Ads campaigns, keywords and spend efficiency usually the largest — advertising has the most moving parts
Inventory stock cover, stockout risk usually the most urgent
Traffic impressions and sessions moving out of pattern smaller
Sales revenue shifts by product or category smaller

Inventory alerts outrank advertising alerts even when there are fewer of them. An advertising problem costs you money, and money can be won back. A stockout costs you rank as well, and rank has to be earned again.

The alerts themselves

The alert list, each with its trigger rule

Each row carries the alert name, its category, its priority and — underneath — the exact condition that fired it. These are the ones you will meet most:

Alert Category Fires when
Low Stock Alert Inventory weeks of cover drops below 3 weeks for any ASIN
Critical Stock Alert Inventory weeks of cover drops below 1 week for any ASIN
Stockout Forecast Inventory an ASIN is projected to stock out within 14 days at current velocity
Spend Without Sales SP Ads a campaign spent over $50 with zero attributed sales
Keyword Bleeding Money SP Ads a keyword spent over $100 at an ACoS above 100%
Campaign Daily Budget Capped SP Ads a campaign hits its daily budget before the end of the day
Ad Spend Spike SP Ads daily spend runs more than 35% above budget/average
ACOS Spike Alert SP Ads ACoS increases more than 25% vs the trailing 7-day average
Sales Drop Alert Sales daily sales fall more than 30% below the trailing 7-day average
Conversion Rate Drop Traffic CVR drops more than 20% vs the trailing 7-day average

The last four compare against a trailing 7-day average, which is worth knowing before you act on one. The threshold moves with your own recent trading: a quiet week raises the bar, a busy week lowers it, and the same absolute drop can fire one week and stay silent the next. It is also why alerts cluster in the days after a promotion ends.

The three inventory rules are the only absolute ones — they measure weeks of cover against stock, not against last week — which makes them the ones to trust without context.

Because the rule is written on the alert, you are never guessing why it appeared — and you can tell immediately whether it matters for your account. A Spend Without Sales alert on a brand-new campaign is expected. The same alert on a campaign that has run for a month is not.

Priority

Alerts carry a priority chip. P0 is the top band, and it is what the Critical count on the summary cards is counting.

Priority reflects both how far something has moved and how much depends on it. Work top down — the ordering is the point of the screen.

Finding things

Three controls sit above the list: a search box, a Category filter and a Priority filter.

The most useful habit is to filter to Inventory first thing in the morning. Those are the alerts with a deadline attached. Advertising alerts can wait an hour; a stockout forecast cannot.

Each row expands for the detail behind it, and carries an age — 1d ago, 2d ago. An alert that has been sitting there for a week is either not important or not being dealt with, and both are worth knowing.

Dashboard and Alert History

The screen has two views.

Dashboard is what needs attention now.

Alert History is everything that has fired before. This is more useful than it sounds: when you are trying to work out when something started going wrong, the history gives you a dated trail. An alert that recurs for the same product every few weeks is describing a structural problem, not a bad week.

An alert is a starting point, not a diagnosis

An alert tells you a rule was met. It does not tell you why the number moved.

The usual next step is to open the relevant screen with the same date range and use Values vs % change to see what moved alongside it.

If you would rather these reached you outside the product, alerts can be delivered to Slack — see Aria in Slack under Settings.

For the dated trail, the affected ASINs behind each alert, and how to tell five alerts apart from one unresolved problem, see Alert History and Priority.

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