Rules process events on topics. You can use the rule processing language, DRQL to create rules. The rule definition includes information about the topics and the number of events to process, the conditions to check, and the response to generate when there is a deviation. As part of overall rule processing, the rule might call out functions called analytics. Rules also rely on watchlists that act as reference data sets during rule processing.

RulePoint also provides an easy way to parameterize rules using templates. Templates are abstract rules that could become a rule when you provide all its parameters. You can create template rules from a template.