What is a Behavioral metric?
Behavioral metrics detect abnormal patterns, trend breaks, and distribution shifts in business or operational data over time. Where other metric types evaluate the current state of the data, behavioral metrics evaluate how the data is changing — relative to its own history, peer segments, or prior periods. Type: User-defined — Behavioral metrics are created manually. Navigate to Metric → Add and select Subcategory: Behavioral. Behavioral metrics answer the question: Is this data behaving consistently with how it has always behaved, or has something fundamentally changed? Prizm builds a statistical model of the metric’s expected behavior from historical runs. On each new run, the observed value is compared against the model’s expected range. Deviations that exceed the configured sensitivity threshold are flagged as anomalies. The model accounts for daily and weekly patterns, growth trends, and historical variance — adapting continuously as data patterns evolve. Behavioral metrics require a minimum of 5 historical data points before anomaly detection activates.Metrics
Setup
Step-by-step guide to creating and configuring a behavioral metric.
Use Cases
Real-world examples — transaction volume trends, ML feature drift detection.