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Users with the privilege to Access alarms section in virtual machines can edit a virtual machine and open the Alarms tab.

Users with the privilege to Access alerts can also open the Control tab in the Virtual machines page and view the alarms associated with an alert.

Create an alarm

To create virtual machine alarms for virtual machine metrics. Note that you can create alarms for builtin and custom metrics.

Before you begin:

1. On the Monitoring tab, select the Retrieve metrics checkbox to enable monitoring and retrieve metrics
2. Click Save

To create an alarm:

1. Edit a virtual machine
   
   1. Check that you are retrieving metrics
      
      • If you are not retrieving metrics, you may create an alarm but it will not be triggered
2. Open the Alarms tab and click the + button to create an alarm
3. Enter the alarm details. See the Create an alarm UI reference section
4. Click Save

The platform will create the alarm for the metric. If you would like the platform to notify you when an alarm is triggered, create an Alert for the virtual appliance.

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Edit an alarm

Modifying an alarm requires the same privileges as creating an alarm.

When you edit an alarm, you cannot modify the Metric field.

You can also modify an alarm on the Control tab of the Virtual appliances pane. 

When you edit an alarm, there is an extra field, "Active", that shows if the alarm is activated or not.

Delete an alarm

You can delete any alarm at any time, even if it is part of one or more alerts.

The platform will not warn you that the alarm is used in an alert. However, you can check this on the virtual appliance's Control tab.

After you delete an alarm, you cannot recover it.

If you delete the virtual machine, the platform will delete any alarms associated with it.