# Tableau Pulse 2026.1 Updates in 26.1: Correlation Insights, Metric Alerts & Custom Goals

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2026-03-02
- **Format:** Video · 4 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Analytics, AI & ML
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, pulse)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-pulse-20261-updates-in-261-correlation-insights-metric-alerts--custom-goals
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rwhizFgkhs

I walk through the Tableau Pulse updates in the 26.1 release, covering enhanced Q&A correlation insights, manageable metric alerts, custom goal and threshold names, and custom queries from the homepage. I also share why I've gone from sceptic to advocate for Tableau Pulse.

## Key takeaways

- Enhanced Q&A correlation insights now surface meaningful relationships between metrics across different data sources, using analyst-specified relationships and an LLM grounded in detected insights, reporting strength, direction and supporting visualisations.
- You can now manage metric alerts by toggling notifications on or off per metric, rather than receiving every alert in one bundle, and this carries through to Tableau Mobile.
- Custom goal and threshold names let you label targets meaningfully (for example 'on track') when setting them up.
- Custom Q&A queries can now be run directly from the Tableau Pulse homepage via a modal window for talking to your data.
- Tableau Pulse and the 'metrics' feature in Tableau Next share a code base, with Pulse being the fresher, more current version.

## Chapters

- 0:01 Finding Pulse in the release notes
- 0:29 Enhanced Q&A correlation insights
- 1:27 Managing metric alerts
- 1:59 Custom goal and threshold names
- 2:09 Why I changed my mind on Pulse
- 3:26 Custom queries from the homepage

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-pulse-20261-updates-in-261-correlation-insights-metric-alerts--custom-goals

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