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Branch alarms

You need: Hub — branch alarms to view. Archiving needs Hub — archive alarms, typically hub_manager.

Branch alarms flag that a store needs attention — as opposed to driver alerts, which flag a person, and incidents, which you record yourself.

What they tell you

An alarm fires when a store crosses a configured threshold: too much load, too many cancellations, too many orders missing their promised time. What counts as "too much" is configurable per alarm type — see Alarm settings.

An alarm is a signal, not a diagnosis. It tells you where to look, not what is wrong.

Working through them

  1. Look at the store, not the alarm. Open its orders and see what is actually happening.
  2. Decide whether it is an operational problem or a threshold problem. One store alarming during a genuine rush is the system working. Every store alarming every lunchtime means the threshold is wrong.
  3. Act on the underlying issue, if there is one — reassign, pause delivery, change a promised time.
  4. Archive the alarm once it has been handled.

Archiving

Archiving marks an alarm as dealt with and takes it off the active view. It doesn't delete it: archived alarms remain available for review — see Archived alarms.

Archive when the alarm has been handled or understood, not merely seen. An alarm archived without being looked at is worse than one left active, because it now looks resolved to everyone else.

Archiving is a higher permission than viewing, on purpose. Anyone on shift can see what is firing; deciding something has been dealt with is a shift-manager judgement.

When the board is full of alarms

Alarms that fire constantly stop being read. If a store or an alarm type is permanently lit:

  • Check the threshold against what that store can realistically do — Alarm settings.
  • Check whether it is the same root cause producing many alarms, rather than many problems.
  • Consider whether the store's delay tolerances match its reality — Store delivery settings.

Tuning a threshold so it fires when someone should act, and stays quiet otherwise, is worth more than working through a long list.

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