Overview

You can set threshold alarms to monitor CVM performance, and also event alarms to watch the status of CVM instances and the underlying platform infrastructure. When an exception occurs, you will promptly receive notifications via WeChat, email, SMS, phone, etc.. A proper alarm policy will help improve the robustness and reliability of your applications. This document describes how to create an alarm policy. For more information, see Creating Alarm Policy.

Directions

1. Log in to the [Cloud Monitor console] and select Alarm Configuration > Alarm Policy on the left sidebar.
2. On the Alarm Policy page, click Create.
3. In the pop-up window, configure basic information, alarm policy, and notification template as instructed below.

   Configuration Type	Configuration Item		Description
   Basic Info	Policy Name		A custom policy name
   	Remarks		Remarks for the policy
   	Monitor Type		Choose Cloud Product Monitoring
   	Policy Type		Select the desired policy type for monitoring Tencent Cloud services.
   	Project		Choose a project as needed. You can later find this policy quickly by filtering by the project.
   Configure Alarm Policies	Alarm Object		Instance ID: associate the policy with the specified CVM instance Tag: associate the policy with CVM instances with the specified tag Instance Group: associate the policy with the selected instance group All Objects: associate the policy with all instances the current account (permission required)
   	Trigger Condition	Manual Configuration(Metric Alarm)	Trigger condition: specify the metric, comparison, threshold, statistical period, and the number of consecutive periods. You can expand the trigger condition to view the metric trend, and based on which, set a proper threshold.
   		Manual Configuration(Event Alarm)	Create an event alarm policy to get notifications in case of service resources or underlying infrastructure exceptions
   		Select template	Choose a configured template as needed. For more information about the configurations, please see Configuring Trigger Condition Template.
   Configure Alarm Notification (optional)	Notification Template		It defaults to the preset notification template (sending the notification to the root account admin via SMS and email). Up to 3 notification templates can be bound to each alarm policy. For more information about the configurations of notification templates, see Creating Notification Template.

4. Click Complete.