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Configuring an alert by using the legacy alert editor

Configuring an alert by using the legacy alert editor

In the IBM Cloud Monitoring service, you can configure single alerts and multi-condition alerts to notify about problems that may require attention. When an alert is triggered, you can be notified through 1 or more notification channels. An alert definition can generate multi-channel notifications.

The legacy alert editor is deprecated. See Configuring an alert for information about the current alert editor.

An alert is a notification event that you can use to warn about situations that require attention. Each alert has a severity status. This status informs you about the criticality of the information it reports on. Learn more.

Complete the following steps to configure an alert:

Step 1. Select the alert type

From the Alert section of the UI, select Add Alert. Then, choose the alert type.

Step 2. Name the alert

Enter a name for the alert.

You can also add a description for the alert and the name of an alert group if you want to group you alerts. If an alert group is not specified, the alert will be created in the default group.

Step 3. Define the severity

Add a severity level. Valid severity values are info, low, medium, and high.

Step 4. Define the metric section

  1. Select a metric (entity) that you want to monitor.

  2. Define the alert condition. Choose any of the following options:

    Option 1: Choose a metric and a single condition such as average, sum, minimum or maximum.

    Option 2: Choose Create multi-condition alerts. Enter the condition, for example, min(min(cpu.used.percent)) < = 50 OR max(max(cpu.used.percent)) >= 80.

    Multi-condition alert
    Multi-condition alert

Step 5. Define the scope

Indicate the scope of the alert. By default, the scope is set to everywhere. However, you can limit the scope, for example, to a specific component of the infrastructure.

Step 6. Define the trigger condition

Choose any of the following options:

  • Choose Single Alert when you want this alert to be triggered when the condition is met for your entire scope.

  • Choose Multiple Alert and configure 1 or more segments when you want this alert to be triggered when the condition is met for any or every segment.

Step 7. Configure the notify section

Select 1 or more notification channels.

By default, you get a notification in the Events section.

You can enable multi-channel notifications by enabling 1 or more notification channels.

Optionally, you can customize the information that is included in a notification to provide more context for the alert.