Updated on 2023-11-03 GMT+08:00

Creating an Alarm Template

APM allows you to configure alarm templates. You can create multiple alarm policies under a template and bind them to nodes.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click on the left and choose Application > Application Performance Management.
  3. In the navigation pane, choose Application Monitoring > Metrics.
  4. In the tree on the left, click an application. The metric details page of the application is displayed.
  1. Click the Alarm Templates tab.

    Figure 1 Creating an alarm template

  2. Click Add Template to add an alarm template as prompted.

    1. Enter basic information.

      Template Name: Enter up to 64 characters. Only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-) are allowed.

      Remarks: Enter up to 512 characters. Only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-) are allowed.

    2. Click Add Alarm Policy to add an alarm policy.
      1. Basic information
        Figure 2 Basic information
        Table 1 Basic information about an alarm policy

        Parameter

        Description

        Policy Name

        Custom name, which cannot be left blank.

        Only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-) are allowed. Enter up to 512 characters.

        Alarm Severity

        Severity of an alarm. Options: COMMON and CRITICAL.

        Alarm Policy Type

        Options: Single-node and Aggregate. Single-node indicates single-instance metric alarms, and Aggregate indicates aggregated metric alarms of all instances under a component.

        Monitoring Item

        Select a target monitoring item. The information about the selected item is displayed on the right.

        Metric Set

        Select a target metric set. The information about the selected metric set is displayed on the right.

      2. Alarm rule
        Figure 3 Alarm rule
        Table 2 Alarm rule parameters

        Parameter

        Description

        Dimension

        (Optional) A category of metrics.

        Metric

        Metric for which you want to define one or more alarm rules.

        Alarm Condition

        Condition for triggering an alarm.

        A: 1–10

        B: 1–10; not greater than A

        C: ≥ 10

        Recovery Policy

        Condition for clearing an alarm.

        Notification upon Recovery

        Whether to notify recipients of alarm clearance.

        Multi-Line Matching

        (Optional) Whether to define data in the alarm notification content line by line.

        Notification Content

        Alarm details, which contain up to 500 characters.

        • If Multi-Line Matching is enabled, the alarm notification content supports both Variable and Loop. If Multi-Line Matching is disabled, only Variable can be selected.
        • Alarm notification content. You can customize the content or select metrics as required.
        • Alarm details, which contain up to 500 characters.
        • Select required metrics. Specifically, on the right of the page, click next to the target metric. The metric will then be displayed in the notification content.

      3. Notification object
      Figure 4 Notification object
      Table 3 Alarm notification parameters

      Parameter

      Description

      Notification Object

      Select a notification object from the drop-down list.

      The alarm will only be sent to the selected notification object.

    3. Click Yes.
    4. Bind nodes based on the environment, environment tag, or region.
      Figure 5 Binding nodes
      Table 4 Node parameters

      Parameter

      Description

      All

      All nodes (including those added subsequently) in all regions will be bound.

      Environment

      All nodes in the selected environment will be bound.

      Environment Tag

      All nodes with the same tag will be bound.

      Region

      All nodes in the selected region will be bound.

  3. Click Yes. The alarm template is created.

More Operations

After the alarm template is created, perform the operations listed in Table 5 if needed.

Table 5 Related operations

Operation

Description

Copying a template

Click Copy in the Operation column in the row that contains the template you want to copy.

Modifying a template

Click Modify in the Operation column in the row that contains the template you want to modify.

Deleting a template

Click Delete in the Operation column in the row that contains the template you want to delete.

Starting and stopping a template

Turn on or off the button () in the Operation column in the row that contains the template you want to start or stop.