Alerts that you receive from your observability tool are based on conditions that existed seconds to minutes in the past, because the alert is only triggered after the data has been indexed within the tool. This means that your ability to take timely action in response to the condition is significantly limited, and often your window of opportunity to react is past by the time you receive the alert.

A better situation is one in which you can set alerts for the data in stream, that will trigger when the actual conditions are met. With In-stream Alerts for Mezmo Telemetry Pipelines, you can configure alert conditions for any node within your pipeline. Check out this interactive demo to see how it works.