Warning and danger thresholds

The warning and danger thresholds are optional settings that allow you to visually communicate certain risk or tolerance levels for Issue assets.

The two threshold settings, "Warning level" and "Danger level", can be configured:

• Per counter.
• Alone or in combination with one another.

Example

Let's say that your organization has established that 20 open issues (meaning Issue assets with a status other than "Resolved") exceeds its risk appetite. To give this visibility within the appropriate community of Collibra users, you add the Counters widget to the dashboard, and configure a counter to show the number of open issues, of which there are currently 13.

In accordance with your organization's risk appetite, and to give more meaning to the number of open issues, you set Warning Level to 10 and Danger Level to 20.

The following example image shows the resulting Counters widget and, specifically, the Open Issues counter:

Understanding the color bands

When values are given to one or both of the threshold settings, the band around the counter will be green, orange or red. The colors have the following meanings:

Circle color	Meaning
Entirely gray	No value has been set for either the warning or danger thresholds.
Green	The issue count is lower than both threshold values, or if only one threshold has been set, lower than that value.
Orange	The issue count is higher than the warning threshold value, but lower than the danger threshold value (if the danger threshold has been set).
Red	The issue count is higher than the warning threshold value (if no danger threshold has been set) or higher than the danger threshold value, if it has been set.