Manage cloud alarms

Create an alarm

You can create alarms for built-in VM metrics or scaling group metrics, as well as custom metrics created using the API for VMs, scaling groups, virtual appliances, and virtual datacenters.

Privilege: Access alarms section, Manage alarms

Before you begin:

Configure the metrics you will use in the alarm. See VM monitoring and metrics and Custom Metrics Resources.

To create an alarm:

Go to Virtual datacenter → Alarms
Select virtual datacenter, virtual appliance, scaling group, or VM
Click the Add + button in the top right hand corner
Enter the alarm details as described below
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.

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For a scaling group, an alarm on a metric of the VM in the base workload will receive input from the metrics of all VMs in the scaling group. This means the base workload and/or the clone VMs. So an alarm for a scaling group can activate, even if the base workload is not deployed.

Create alarms with the API

For API documentation about alarms on an entity, see the API documentation for the entity's resource. For example, for VMs, see VirtualMachinesResource.

Pages related to Cloud Alarms

Main VM configuration page Configure Virtual Machines
VM monitoring and metrics
Manage Alerts
Manage Action Plans
Control View