Creating an Alarm Rule to Monitor an Event

Scenarios

This topic describes how to create an alarm rule to monitor an event.

Procedure

Log in to the management console.
Click in the upper left corner of the page. Under Management & Governance, click Cloud Eye.
In the navigation pane on the left, choose Event Monitoring.
On the event list page, click Create Alarm Rule in the upper right corner.

On the Create Alarm Rule page, configure the parameters.

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Description
Name	Specifies the alarm rule name. The system generates a random name, which you can modify.
Description	(Optional) Provides supplementary information about the alarm rule.
Alarm Type	Specifies the alarm type corresponding to the alarm rule.
Event Type	Specifies the event type of the metric corresponding to the alarm rule.
Event Source	Specifies the service the event is generated for. Select Document Database Service.
Monitoring Scope	Specifies the monitoring scope for event monitoring.
Method	Select Configure manually.
Alarm Policy	Event Name indicates the instantaneous operations users performed on system resources, such as login and logout. For details about events supported by Event Monitoring, see Events Supported by Event Monitoring. Select Trigger Mode and Alarm Severity as required.

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to enable alarm notification. The validity period is 24 hours by default. If the topics you require are not displayed in the drop-down list, click Create an SMN topic.

**Table 2** Alarm notification parameters
Parameter	Description
Alarm Notification	Specifies whether to notify users when alarms are triggered. Notifications can be sent by email, text message, or HTTP/HTTPS message.
Notification Type	You can select a notification group or topic subscription as required.
Notification Group	Specifies the notification group that needs to send alarm notifications.
Notification Object	Specifies the object that receives alarm notifications. You can select the account contact or a topic. Account contact is the mobile phone number and email address of the registered account. 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, see Creating a Topic and Adding Subscriptions.
Validity Period	Cloud Eye sends notifications only within the validity period specified in the alarm rule. If Validity Period is set to 08:00-20:00, Cloud Eye sends notifications only within 08:00-20:00.
Trigger Condition	Specifies the condition for triggering an alarm notification.

Configure the enterprise project as prompted.

**Table 3** Parameter description
Parameter	Description
Enterprise Project	Specifies the enterprise project that the alarm rule belongs to. Only users with the enterprise project permissions can view and manage the alarm rule. For details about how to create an enterprise project, see Creating an Enterprise Project.