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Traffic Alerts

Get a message when a site suddenly gets much more traffic than usual.

What alerts do

Invoker currently supports one alert type: the traffic spike. Every 15 minutes it compares the pageviews recorded so far in the current hour with the average for the same hour of the day over the previous 7 days. If the current hour reaches your threshold (for example 2× normal), the alert fires.

  • Spikes are only detected once the site averages at least 10 pageviews in that hour, so brand-new or very quiet sites won't trigger alerts.
  • Alerts don't fire while tracking is turned off for the site.
  • After an alert fires it waits for the cooldown period before it can fire again.

Alerts are available on every plan, including Free.

Creating an alert

  1. Open the site and click Alerts in the sidebar (/site/<id>/settings/alerts).
  2. Create an alert and give it a name, e.g. "Launch day spike".
  3. Pick a Traffic Threshold: 1.5×, 2×, 3×, 5× or 10× normal traffic.
  4. Choose one or more Notification Channels: email, Slack or Discord.
  5. Set a Cooldown Period (15 minutes to 4 hours in the dashboard).
  6. Save. Use Alert Active to pause an alert without deleting it.

Owners, admins and editors can create and edit alerts; viewers can see them.

Channels

Email

The site owner always receives alert emails. Add other people under Additional Email Recipients (comma-separated).

Slack

Create an incoming webhook for the channel you want, then paste the https://hooks.slack.com/services/… URL into Slack Webhook URL.

Discord

In Discord open Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks, create a webhook and paste its https://discord.com/api/webhooks/… URL into Discord Webhook URL.

You can send a test message to a saved Slack or Discord webhook to check it works. After saving, webhook URLs are masked in the dashboard and API responses.

Example: what triggers a 2× alert

Over the last 7 days your site averaged 120 pageviews between 14:00 and 15:00. Today, by 14:40, it has already recorded 260 pageviews in that hour (2.2× normal), so the alert fires and the cooldown starts.

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