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To help you detect and address changing demand for resources, the platform's control features include monitoring alerts with notifications, action plans for automation, and autoscaling.

Basic control and scaling concepts

ConceptDescription
MetricA built-in metric that is provided by a hypervisor or provider (e.g. CPU usage) or a custom metric that the user creates and populates using API calls
AlarmAn 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. See Manage cloud alarms and Infrastructure Alarms
AlertAn alert enables you to configure notifications or actions from alarms. Alerts are like a worker monitoring a group of alarms; when all the lights for the group are lit up, the alert is activated. Alerts can trigger action plans. See Control View
Action plansA sequence of actions to perform on entities on the platform, such as VMs or scaling groups. An action plan is run by a trigger.
TriggerA trigger is an alert or a schedule that will run the action plan, for example, during times of increased demand. 
Scaling groupFor horizontal autoscaling, create a scaling group for a VM with rules to define how the platform should scale it out. You can then include scaling operations in an action plan.
Vertical scalingVertical scaling means scaling up, adding more resources to an existing VM, for example, boosting your CPU and or RAM capacity.
Horizontal scalingHorizontal scaling means scaling out, deploying more VMs when you need more resources. 




Create Alerts and Alarms

Before you begin:

  1. Retrieve VM built-in metrics, by editing VMs and enabling monitoring (see VM monitoring and metrics) or create custom metrics
  2. Optionally create metric alarms (see Manage cloud alarms and Infrastructure Alarms)

To create an alert:

  1. Go to Control → Alerts
  2. Click the + add button
  3. Enter the alert details
  4. Select an existing alarm, or create a new alarm, and assign it to the alert. Repeat for the required alarms

  5. Click Save

If all alarms are activated, the alert will be activated. You can use the alert to trigger actions. See Manage Action Plans.

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Remove alarms from alerts

Privilege: Access alerts section, Manage alarms, Manage alerts

To remove an alarm from an alert:

  1. Click the delete button, and confirm
    The platform will remove it from this alert, but it will remain in all other alerts that it is associated with

To delete alarms, go to Cloud --> Alarms; see Manage cloud alarms



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