After you create a metric definition, you can define threshold limits for a metric and a metric definition to determine the performance of the metric. When the threshold value is breached or crossed, the system notifies the relevant owners. For example, you can create a metric definition to monitor employee attrition and define your target value for the metric, the amber threshold value and the red threshold value for a specified period. Now, consider that you defined your threshold value as 5, and your amber value as 8, and your red value as 10. This means that when there is an attrition of 8 people, the system will notify you about the metric performance as Amber. If your attrition reaches 10, the system will notify you about the metric performance as Red. This notification will enable you to take appropriate actions. You can create more than one threshold for a metric. If a threshold is defined before the metric is created, then the metrics inherit the rules of the threshold. You can create thresholds for all types of metric definitions. In this procedure, automated metric definition is used as an example.

If the threshold is created after the metric definition is created, you can copy the thresholds to the metrics.