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You can use Google Analytics Custom Alerts to send yourself emails whenever a specific traffic segment drops below (or above) a threshold you set. 
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[Details on how to set that up can be found here](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033021?hl=en)
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[Learn how to set up email alerts here](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033021?hl=en){:target="_blank"}.
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### Analytics email summaries
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In tools like Amplitude, Kissmetrics, Mixpanel you can set up email reports delivered to you on a daily basis. They are completely customizable, so you can keep an eye on as many events or other metrics you'd like. 
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With tools like Amplitude, Kissmetrics, and Mixpanel, you can set up email reports delivered to you on a daily basis. They are completely customizable, so you can keep an eye on as many events or other metrics you'd like. 
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* [Mixpanel email reports](https://mixpanel.com/blog/2011/04/14/email-reports/)
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* [Amplitude email alerts (scroll down a bit)](https://amplitude.com/blog/2015/03/20/new-features-stickiness-team-access-controls-email-alerts-redshift-playbook/)
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### Realtime Traffic Monitoring
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### Realtime traffic monitoring
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Chartbeat and GoSquared both offer awesome real-time dashboards to see what's happening right now on your site. They both include the option to get notified when your traffic hits a certain threshold. For example, if your on-site visitors is less than 100 people, or more than 1,000.
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* [Chartbeat Spike Alerts](http://blog.chartbeat.com/2011/08/11/newsbeat-introducing-spike-alerts/)
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* [GoSquared Traffic Spike Alerts](https://www.gosquared.com/customer/portal/articles/1036771-traffic-spike-alerts)
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* [Chartbeat Spike Alerts](http://blog.chartbeat.com/2011/08/11/newsbeat-introducing-spike-alerts/){:target="_blank"}
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* [GoSquared Traffic Spike Alerts](https://www.gosquared.com/customer/portal/articles/1036771-traffic-spike-alerts){:target="_blank"}
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Note: GoSquared also offers in-depth historical and user analysis. Chartbeat sticks to realtime anonymous traffic, but offers some sweet features for publishers.
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> GoSquared also offers in-depth historical and user analysis. Chartbeat sticks to realtime anonymous traffic, but offers some sweet features for publishers.
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### Webhook-based Alerts
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### Webhook-based alerts
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The last option we recommend is to use a monitoring tool like [PagerDuty](https://www.pagerduty.com/) or [Data Dog](https://www.datadoghq.com/) and point our [webhooks](/docs/connections/destinations/catalog/webhooks/) destination at them. That way you can set up custom alerts in their system.
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The last option Segment recommends is to use a monitoring tool like [PagerDuty](https://www.pagerduty.com/){:target="_blank"} or [Data Dog](https://www.datadoghq.com/){:target="_blank"} and point Segment's [webhooks](/docs/connections/destinations/catalog/webhooks/) destination at them. That way you can set up custom alerts in their system.
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### Event-Triggered Emails
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### Event-triggered emails
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The last option for alerting based off of Segment events is to use one of the email tools available on the Segment platform that offers event-triggered emails. Your options there are Customer.io, Vero, Autopilot, Outbound, Klaviyo, or Threads.

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