About alarms

An alarm activates when a metric passes a certain threshold. If you imagine a dashboard for your metrics, alarms are like red lights that light up when conditions change, for example, when there is a problem. 

If you would like the platform to notify you when an alarm activates, create an alert for it in Control view. Alerts are a group of one or more alarms. They are like a worker monitoring a group of alarms; when all the lights for the group are lit up, the alert activates. Alerts can also trigger action plans to perform automated actions when their alarms activate. After you create an alert, you can create an action plan in Control view with the alert as a trigger.

In Infrastructure view you can create alarms for custom metrics on infrastructure elements, such as racks, and servers. To add custom metrics, use the Abiquo API, see Custom metrics resources.

You can also create alarms for built-in metrics for deployed VMs that you can access through the infrastructure path of their providers. See Infrastructure alarms

Related pages

• Configure VM monitoring and metrics