A Tableau Next Consultant is asked to configure proactive alerts for pipeline metrics.

A Creator license is required to set proactive alerts for pipeline metrics in the scenario described. Creating an alert is more than passive consumption: the user defines a monitored condition, configures when that condition should trigger, and establishes an ongoing analytical action against the governed metric. Those capabilities fall within the Creator-level analytical configuration persona.

A Consumer can view and interact with published analytical content but does not receive the complete authoring and configuration privileges associated with creating alert definitions. The Viewer choice is even more limited and does not provide the required proactive-alert setup capability. Therefore, assigning Creator access is the appropriate licensing decision for users who must establish their own alerts.

The broader certification principle is to align licenses with the user's intended role. Users who only consume metrics should remain on the consumption tier, while users who need to create or configure analytical behavior—including proactive alert definitions—require the higher authoring entitlement. This separates governance and cost while ensuring that only appropriately licensed users can create monitoring rules.

References/Topics: Agentic Experiences - > Proactive Data Alerts - > Creator License Requirements.

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