Creating an Alarm Rule

The alarm function provides the alarm service for monitoring data. By creating alarm rules, you can define how the alarm system checks monitoring data and sends alarm notifications when monitoring data meets alarm policies. Alarm rules for important metrics help you timely know metric data exceptions and quickly rectify the faults.

If you disable Alarm Notification when creating an alarm rule, no alarm notification will be sent. You can view the status changes of alarm rules using the alarm records function of Cloud Eye.

This section describes how to create alarm rules for metrics and events.

Creating an Alarm Rule for Metric Monitoring

Log in to the management console.
In the upper left corner, select the desired region.
Click Service List. Under Management & Governance, click Cloud Eye.
In the navigation pane on the left, choose Alarm Management > Alarm Rules.
On the displayed Alarm Rules page, click Create Alarm Rule and configure required parameters.
- Alarm Type: The type of the alarm that the alarm rule applies to. Select Metric.
- Cloud Product: The name of the service for which the alarm rule is configured. Select Cloud Phone Host - Cloud Phone Servers.
- Dimension: The dimension can be Cloud Phone Servers, Cloud Phone Servers - Cloud Phones, Cloud Phone Servers - Disks, or Cloud Phone Servers - GPUs. Configure this parameter as required.
For details about other parameters, see Creating an Alarm Rule.
Click Create.
If you have enabled Alarm Notification, you will be notified when an alarm is triggered.

For more information about alarm rules, see the Cloud Eye User Guide.

Creating an Alarm Rule and Notification for Event Monitoring

Log in to the management console.
In the upper left corner, select a region.
Click Service List. Under Management & Governance, click Cloud Eye.
In the navigation pane on the left, choose Event Monitoring.
On the displayed page, click Create Alarm Rule in the upper right corner.

If you want to create an alarm rule for an existing event, locate the target event in the event list and click Create Alarm Rule in the Operation column. On the displayed Create Alarm Rule page, required parameters have been configured for that event.

Configure basic information about the alarm rule.

**Table 1** Basic parameters
Parameter	Description
Name	Name of the alarm rule. The system generates a random name, which you can modify. The rule name cannot exceed 128 characters and can contain only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-).
Description	Alarm rule description. The value can contain a maximum of 256 characters. This parameter is optional.

Select an object to be monitored and configure alarm parameters.

Figure 1 Configuring parameters

**Table 2** Parameters of creating an alarm rule for event monitoring
Parameter	Description
Alarm Type	Alarm type that the alarm rule applies to. The default value is Event.
Event Type	Event type, which can be System event or Custom event.
Event Source	Service the event is generated for. For a custom event, set Event Source to the value of event_source.
Monitoring Scope	Monitoring scope the alarm rule applies to. You can select All resources, Resource groups, or Specific resources. If Event Type is set to System event, you can configure the monitoring scope. Currently, Resource groups is only available for DDS, RDS, and DCS event alarms.
Method	Select a mode for configuring an alarm policy. If you select System event for Event Type, Method can be Associate template or Configure manually. If you select Custom event for Event Type, only Configure manually is supported. Configure manually: You can create a custom alarm policy as needed. Associate template: If the same alarm rule needs to be configured for multiple groups of resources under the same cloud product, you can use an alarm template to simplify operation.
Template	If Method is set to Associate template, you need to select a template. You can select a default or custom template.
Event Name	Instantaneous operations users performed on resources, such as login and logout. For a custom event, the event name is the value of event_name when the custom event is reported.
Alarm Policy	Policy for triggering an alarm.
Alarm Severity	Alarm severity, which can be Critical, Major, Minor, or Informational.
Operation	You can click Delete to delete the alarm policy.

Configure alarm notifications.

Figure 2 Configuring the alarm notification

**Table 3** Parameters for configuring alarm notifications
Parameter	Description
Alarm Notifications	Whether to send alarm notifications by SMS, emailFunctionGraph (function), FunctionGraph (Workflow), WeCom, DingTalk, Lark, WeLink or HTTP or HTTPS. This parameter is enabled by default.
Notified By	Notification method. You can select Notification groups, or Topic subscriptions. Notification groups: You need to create notification recipients and add them to a notification group. Topic subscriptions: You can select a cloud account contact or a custom topic created in SMN.
Notification Group	Notification group that alarm notifications will be sent to. For details about how to create a notification group, see Creating a Recipient and Notification Group.
Recipient	Target recipient of alarm notifications. You can select the account contact or a topic name. This parameter is available only if Notified By is set to Topic subscriptions. The account contact is the mobile phone number and email address of the registered account. A topic is used to publish messages and subscribe to notifications. If the required topic is unavailable, create one first and add subscriptions to it. For details about how to create a topic and add subscriptions, see Creating a Topic and Adding Subscriptions.
Notification Window	Cloud Eye sends notifications only within the notification window specified in the alarm rule. If the notification window is set to 08:00-20:00, notifications are sent only within this specified time range.
Time Zone	Time zone for the alarm notification window. By default, it matches the time zone of the client server, but can be manually configured.
Trigger Condition	When the alarm type is Event, you can select Generated alarm for Trigger Condition.

Configure the enterprise project and tag.

Figure 3 Advanced Settings

**Table 4** Parameter description
Parameter	Description
Enterprise Project	Enterprise project that the alarm rule belongs to. Only users with the enterprise project permissions can manage the alarm rule. For details about how to create an enterprise project, see Creating an Enterprise Project.
Tag	A tag consists of a key-value pair. Tags can be used to categorize and search for your resources. You can create tags using TMS. For details, see Creating Predefined Tags. If your organization has configured tag policies for Cloud Eye, follow the policies when configure Tag for an alarm rule. If the tag configured does not comply with the tag policies, alarm rules may fail to be created. In this case, contact your administrator to learn more about the tag policies. A key can contain up to 128 characters, and a value can contain up to 225 characters. You can create up to 20 tags.