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Screenshot: Alerts - Users can create Alerts on the Control tab. An Alert can notify users or trigger an action plan when a group of alarms are triggered, which means that a group of metrics passed certain thresholds.Image Removed

Users can define Scaling Groups with rules for how to add more VMs or retire them. When the platform scales out, it will clone VMs according to the scaling rules.   

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titleClick here to show/hide the task: Define a scaling group

Users may wish to automate the response to resource demands of their applications and increment resources or VMs using action plans and scaling groups.

  1. Create a VM and enable metrics

  2. Create a scaling group for the VM with scaling rules

    1. Enter the Name, Default cooldown and number of VMs

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    2. Create default rules for 1 VM and optionally create more rules

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    3. Click Save

    4. Select the Metric for the autoscaling actions and click Add

  3. If the scaling group is in maintenance mode, disable maintenance mode

When the User defines a scaling group, they can automatically define a scaling action. The platform will automatically create the appropriate alarms, alerts, and action plan with scaling actions.

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Screenshot: An action plan

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Users can run action plans automatically based on schedules or alerts.

Screenshot: Creating an Interval schedule for running an action plan. An Advanced An Advanced schedule is a calendar schedule

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