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Overview

Overview

This guide helps users to enable notifications for important service-related events such as:

  • Scaling operations
  • Pause/resume operations
  • System state change
  • Backup/restore failures
  • Dataslice full

Refer to the List of event types supported for a comprehensive list of events.

This feature supports following notification methods:

  • Email
  • AWS SNS (for AWS users)
  • Azure Event Grid (for Azure users)

Event setup process

The event setup process for NPSaaS customers involves the following three steps:

1. Configure notification infrastructure

  • AWS users: Refer to nzalert for AWS for infrastructure setup.
  • Azure users: Refer to nzalert for Azure for infrastructure setup.
  • Email Notifications: No additional infrastructure setup is required.

2: Create notification methods

3: Define event rules