Keep getting false alarm

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Hi,
I have setup a very simple monitor. The only rule in the monitor is:

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My understanding being that the rule is triggered if the part of the text changed contains the word Datograph. However I get many alerts and when I look in the page that caused the alert there is no track whatsoever of the word Datograph.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks

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@aguida based on the condition, the monitored text must have contained the term “Datograph” when it triggered a notification.

can you check the notification status to see why the condition matched? see Optimizing Alerts with Conditions – Distill

click the bell icon in change history to see the notification status and condition evaluation’s result.

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Thank you so much, and apologies for the noob questions, I am really new to this.
I will check next time I get an alarm. I had three this night but I cannot find them anymore.

I have a dedicated server, running the desktop version running the monitor every 30 seconds.
Unless I am there to look for the notification soon after received the history will be overloaded by hundreds of new monitor runs.

How do I find back to the one who generated the notification?

If I click on the mail I received “Change History”

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I get a running line that never stops running (probably because the history is too long?)

How do I find the run who caused the notification when it is 100 or more back in time?

If that is not possible, is it possible to add an event that once the notification is sent it stops the monitor? So I will get a chance to analyze the notification and restart it afterwards.

Thank you, still love the tool. Great job!

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you can setup an email alert so that older changes get sent to your mailbox. the emails can then be used to see that the text was present in the content.

this is a good ask. we don’t have this feature yet but we plan to support similar functionality in the future.