Creating a Custom Template¶
On the Alarm Templates page, click Create Custom Template.
In the Configure Template step, specify the parameters listed in Table 1.
Table 1 Parameters¶ Parameter
Description
Resource Type
Specifies the type of the resource the alarm rule is created for.
Example value: Elastic Cloud Server
Dimension
Specifies the metric dimension of the selected resource type.
Example value: ECSs
Import Template
Enable
Select an existing template, then you can use or modify default alarm rules contained in the selected alarm template.
Disable
Manually add one or more alarm rules.
Click Next to go to the Add Alarm Rule step. Specify parameters listed in Table 2. You can add one or more rules to the alarm template.
Table 2 Configuring alarm rules¶ Parameter
Description
Metric
For example:
CPU Usage
Indicates the CPU usage of the monitored object in percent.
Memory Usage
Indicates the memory usage of the monitored object in percent.
Alarm Policy
Specifies the policy for triggering an alarm.
For example, an alarm is triggered if the average value of the monitored metric is 80% or more for three consecutive 5-minute periods.
Alarm Severity
Specifies the alarm severity, which can be Critical, Major, Minor, or Informational.
Operation
When the number of the alarm policies is two or more, you can delete alarm policies.
Click Next to go to the Specify Template Details step. Specify parameters listed in Table 3.
Table 3 Configuring template information¶ Parameter
Description
Name
Specifies the custom template name. The system generates a random name, which you can modify.
Example value: alarmTemplate-ku0x
Description
(Optional) Provides supplementary information about the alarm template.
Click Finish.