Our new Administer alarms view in Mestro gives you a clear overview of deviations in energy consumption and helps you quickly identify when something isn’t right. With the new Administer alarms tool, you can create, manage, and follow up on both change alarms and—later this year—threshold alarms. This guide explains how to work with the alarms, which settings are available, and how to make the most of the functionality.
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Administer Alarms View
To get an overview of all your active alarms—and to create new ones or edit existing ones—navigate to the Administer Alarms tool. See the image below. The list displays all alarms related to the object you are currently viewing. You can filter the list by metric, usage type, reference period, and alarm level. It is also possible to search for specific alarms by entering the alarm name or the object on which the alarm was created. Alarms can be created at the property, building, or meter level.
Note: As of February 2026, only change alarms are visible in this view. Later this year, threshold alarms will also be included in the Administer Alarms tool.
In the upper right corner, the number of unhandled triggered alarms is displayed for the level you are currently viewing. Note that in the images above, we are positioned at the property group All properties—here, all alarms from every property and meter within the group are included. In the image below, however, we are viewing the property Orion, where only a single alarm is present.
When you click on the number of triggered alarms, you are taken to the view shown below. From here, you can switch between the tabs for unhandled and handled alarms. Each alarm is presented on a card displaying the alarm name, the meter and/or property it belongs to, the number of handled alarm events, the time the alarm was triggered, and the alarm level.
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For example, if your change alarm for electricity uses the reference period the same month in the previous year, the most recent full month with good data coverage will be compared to the same month in the previous year.
If you have not defined a base year for your portfolio, you can do so in your outermost node under Edit.
When Are Alarms Triggered?
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