Alerts and monitoring
Get told when traffic drops or spikes, a campaign stops converting, a publisher's traffic turns dirty or an offer link dies.
Affilinext watches every running campaign and active publisher and alerts your team when something changes in a way that costs money. Open Tools → Alerts to see every open alert with the numbers behind it.
What is watched
| Alert | What it means | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Traffic drop | A campaign or publisher brought far fewer clicks in the last 6 hours than the same hours usually do (70% less by default). | Every 15 minutes |
| Traffic spike | Clicks reached several times the usual (3× by default). Often a new placement — sometimes the start of bot traffic. | Every 15 minutes |
| Conversion-rate drop | A campaign converted far below its own previous week over the last 24 hours (50% less by default). | Every 15 minutes |
| Fraud spike | At least 30% of a publisher's clicks were flagged or blocked, and at least twice their usual share. | Every 15 minutes |
| Offer link down | A running campaign's offer URL failed twice in a row: page gone, server error, expired domain or certificate, no answer. | Hourly, once you switch it on (off by default) |
| Broken postback | A campaign's conversions stopped entirely while clicks keep coming. | Every 10 minutes (conversions not tracking) |
| Cap & budget | A campaign reached a cap or its budget, paused or resumed. | On every click |
Why "usual" matters
Every check compares a campaign or publisher with its own history, not with fixed numbers:
- Traffic is compared with the same clock hours on each of the previous 7 days, using the median. A quiet night is compared with other nights, and one unusual day doesn't move the baseline.
- Conversion rate allows for the campaign's usual delay between click and conversion, so slow offers aren't judged early.
- Small campaigns and publishers aren't judged at all until they have enough traffic for the numbers to mean something.
An alert closes by itself once the numbers are well back to normal. It won't open and close repeatedly while a value hovers at the threshold.
Who is notified
Campaign alerts go to team members with the Campaigns permission, publisher alerts to those with Publishers, on the bell and by email. Each kind can be switched off under Settings → Notifications — the alert is still tracked on the Alerts page. Anyone can stop alert emails for themselves under My Profile.
On an alert you can Snooze notifications for 24 hours while you investigate, or Mute an alert you never want to hear about again.
Tuning
The Rules tab on the Alerts page sets how big a drop, spike or fraud share has to be, the minimum traffic to judge, and how often offer links are checked. Changing them needs the Settings permission.
Offer link checks
Automatic checks are off by default. Turn them on with the Automatic offer link checks switch at the top of the Offer links tab (or on the Rules tab); turning them on asks you to confirm, and the first run starts within 5 minutes. Switch them off the same way at any time — Check now on a single link works either way.
While they're on, each running campaign's offer URL is opened with click_id=linkcheck, following its redirects, once per distinct URL. Advertisers may see these visits in their own logs. Servers that refuse automated visitors show as Blocked checks and never alert, and private network addresses are never requested.