What feature should an alarm system in a telemetry dashboard include?

• A. Configurable thresholds with notification.
• B. Fixed thresholds that cannot be changed.
• C. Only visual flashing on screen without alert.
• D. Alarms generated randomly.

Answer: (A)

In telemetry dashboards, alarms need to trigger when a metric crosses a defined limit and then notify the right people. Configurable thresholds with notification achieve this by letting you set and adjust the sensitivity for each metric and choose how you want to be alerted (email, push, SMS, etc.). This flexibility is crucial because baselines shift with load, time of day, maintenance, or different equipment, so thresholds must be tunable to stay meaningful. If thresholds were fixed, you could miss real problems or be flooded with irrelevant alerts. Visual flashing without a real alert channel won’t reliably inform anyone, and alarms that appear at random have no actionable value. Configurable thresholds with notification provides accurate, timely, and actionable alerts in a telemetry dashboard.