Creating an Alarm
Create an alarm in Monitoring to notify you when metrics meet specified triggers.
Creating a Basic Alarm provides the basic steps. The following pages describe specific ways to create alarms:
- Creating an Alarm That Splits Messages by Metric Stream
- Creating a Threshold Alarm
- Creating an Absence Alarm
- Editing the MQL Expression When Creating an Alarm
You can also create an alarm from a predefined query. See Creating an Alarm from a Default Metric Chart and Creating an Alarm from a Custom Metric Chart.
For alarm troubleshooting, see Troubleshooting Alarms.