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Utilizing Triggers in ControlUp: A Guide to Reporting and Tracking Trends

Posted on April 15, 2026

A user asked for help in creating a report to track trends and confirm impact of their work on reducing "Black Hole Machines" alerts, and wondered which Source to use in order to add a widget. Another user mentioned that Events are stored platform-wide and can be accessed through the Events section, but may need to be exposed via API.


Read the entire ‘Utilizing Triggers in ControlUp: A Guide to Reporting and Tracking Trends’ thread below:

Hi everybody, now that Triggers are showing up in Events, I want to create a report (hopefully in Dashboards) to see trends and confirm if our work is making an impact. Specifically, I’m looking to see if the number of "Black Hole Machines" alerts is trending down.

I’m not sure which Source has this info when adding a widget. Does anyone know which one to use?


would have to look at this will come back to u


Events are stored platform wide. They aren’t directly accessible via Dashboards.

The events section can natively do this though


We do need to expose this via API as well I guess…

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Topics: Automation & Alerting, Reporting, Scripts, Triggers

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