We all love the monitor feature in TrendMiner, however sometimes it can also be annoying when the monitor is triggered too many times and creates an email spam. In this article we will discuss how you can prevent an endless stream of TrendMiner monitor alert (emails) and just get an alert when a real event occurs.1. Use search results as indication for number of alertsA TrendMiner search is often the backbone of a monitor and thus we can use the number of search results as indication to the amount of monitor alerts we will get within the search period. For example, if we perform a search with a context bar period of 6 months and get 15 results, then we know that when we apply a monitor with this search we will get 15 monitor alerts within 6 months.2. Finetune your value based searchWhen you use a value based search the first thing you can tune to optimize your monitor is the minimal duration setting of your value base. In this example we want to know