Table alerts

Table alerts automatically monitor your Clay tables and notify you when something needs attention — whether error rates spike in a column or a table grows beyond an expected size. Stay on top of data quality issues and workflow health without having to check your tables manually.

Setting up table alerts

Table Alerts are automatically enabled for all workbooks with default thresholds. To view or customize your settings:

1. Navigate to your Workbook.
2. Click into Workbook Settings.
3. Find the Alerts section.
4. Set your thresholds for each alert type:
   • Column Error Rate Alert — fires when any column's error rate percentage exceeds your threshold. Default: 75%.
   • Table Row Count Alert — fires when your table's row count exceeds your limit. Default: 45,000 rows.
   • To receive more alerts, decrease the thresholds. To receive fewer, increase them beyond the defaults.
5. Click Save.

Viewing and managing alerts

Finding alerts in your table

Once thresholds are configured, alerts will fire automatically when conditions are met.

1. Look for the ⚠️ warning icon with a number in the bottom-right corner of your table.
2. Click the icon to open the alerts panel.
3. Review the feed of all triggered alerts for that table.

Each alert shows:

• Column name — which column exceeded the error threshold (for error rate alerts).
• Threshold — the value that was exceeded (e.g., "10% error rate threshold").
• Error cause — the reason for failure (e.g., "missing inputs").
• Row count status — whether your table has exceeded the row limit (for row count alerts).

Click any alert to automatically scroll to and highlight the relevant column in your table for faster investigation.

Managing your alerts

From the alerts panel, you can:

• Mark as resolved — resolves an individual alert and updates the icon count in the bottom-right corner.
• Mark all resolved — clears all alerts at once.
• Hide resolved alerts — toggles the view to show only active, unresolved alerts.

Checking current thresholds

• Hover over the footer text in the alerts panel to see your current threshold settings at a glance.
• Click the settings link in the footer to jump directly to Workbook Settings and adjust your thresholds.

External notifications

By default, alerts appear inside your Clay table. You can also receive them externally through two channels:

Email notifications

1. Open the alerts panel in your table.
2. Click Subscribe.
3. You'll receive an email to your Clay account-associated email address every time a new alert triggers for that table.

Slack notifications

1. Go to your Workspace Settings.
2. Connect your Slack workspace to Clay's delivery system.
3. Return to the alerts panel in your table.
4. Click Connect Channel.
5. Select the Slack channel where you want to receive alerts.

FAQs

How do I get more or fewer alerts?

Adjust the thresholds in Workbook Settings → Alerts. Lowering the thresholds means alerts fire more frequently (more signal); raising them means fewer alerts fire (less noise). The defaults — 75% for column error rate and 45,000 rows for row count — work well as a starting point for most workflows.

Are thresholds set per-table or per-workbook?

Thresholds are configured at the workbook level and apply across the tables in that workbook. You can update them at any time from Workbook Settings → Alerts.

Can I subscribe a teammate to email alerts instead of myself?

Email alerts are sent to the Clay account-associated email of the person who clicks Subscribe in the alerts panel. Each user manages their own subscription individually.

What counts as a column error for the Column Error Rate Alert?

A column error is triggered by failures during action runs, such as missing required inputs, data validation errors, or action pre-validation failures. The alert fires when the percentage of failed runs in a column exceeds your configured threshold.

Do resolved alerts come back if the issue isn't fixed?

Yes. Marking an alert as resolved updates the icon count and clears it from your active feed, but if the underlying condition persists or recurs — for example, a column's error rate exceeds the threshold again — a new alert will fire.

Does the feature cost credits?

No. Table Alerts is a monitoring feature and does not consume actions or data credits.

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