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Configuring Alarm Rules

This section describes the alarm policies of some metrics and how to configure them. In actual services, you are advised to configure alarm rules for metrics based on the following alarm policies.

**Table 1** Parameters for alarm settings
Parameter	Description
Name	Name of the alarm rule. The system generates a name randomly but you can change it.
Description	Alarm rule description. This parameter is optional.
Alarm Type	Alarm type to which the alarm rule applies. Default: Metric.
Resource Type	Resource type. Default: EventGrid.
Dimension	Alarm dimension. Default: Event Channels.
Monitoring Scope	Resources to monitor. Default: Specific resources.
Monitored Objects	Object to monitor. Default: event channel name.
Method	Alarm triggering method. Default: Configure manually.
Alarm Policy	Policy that triggers an alarm. For details, see Table 2. NOTE: You cannot modify or add alarm policies for metric alarm rules created on the EG console.
Alarm Notification	After you enable this function and configure required parameters, you will be notified of alarms and alarm clearance by notification group or topic subscription.
Notification Recipient	Select Notification group or Topic subscription.
Notification Group	Select a notification group. If no notification group is available, create one by referring to Creating a Notification Object or Notification Group.
Notification Object	Select a notification contact and topic. If no topic is available, create one by referring to Creating a Notification Object or Notification Group.
Notification Window	Alarm notifications are only sent during the configured validity period.
Trigger Condition	Condition for triggering a notification.
Enterprise Project	Enterprise project to which the alarm rule belongs. For details, see Creating an Enterprise Project.

**Table 2** Alarm policy parameters
Period	Number of Times	Comparison	Value	Interval	Severity
Raw data	1 time	≥	Number	Every 10 minutes	Critical
Max.	2 consecutive times	>	Number	Every 15 minutes	Major
Min.	3 consecutive times	≤	Number	Every 30 minutes	Minor
Sum	4 consecutive times	<	Number	Every hour	Information
Variance	5 consecutive times	=	Number	Every 3 hours

Procedure

Log in to the management console.
Click in the upper left and select a region.

Select the region where your event channel is located.
Click in the upper left and choose Middleware > EventGrid.
Choose Event Channels.
Click Monitor in the Operation column to go to the monitoring page.
Hover over a metric and click to create an alarm rule for it.
Specify the alarm rule details.

For details about how to create an alarm rule, see Creating an Alarm Rule.