Getting Started with Monitors¶

Monitors are user-configured custom automated detection tools that collect different types of data, such as infrastructure, application performance, or logs, in real-time. They trigger alerts and generate detailed event records when preset rules are satisfied.

Quick Creation¶

Generally, the following two creation methods are supported:

Official Templates: Utilize built-in monitoring templates to create monitors for hosts, Docker, Elasticsearch, Redis, Alibaba Cloud RDS, Alibaba Cloud SLB, Flink, etc., with one click.

Custom Monitors: Configure detection rules like threshold detection, log detection, and more than ten other types to customize the trigger conditions of a monitor and receive alerts for abnormal events after activation.

For more details, please refer to Monitors.

Example¶

The following is an example of creating a custom monitor:

1. Navigate to Monitoring > Monitors > Create Monitor.

2. Select a detection rule (threshold monitoring is selected here) and enter the configuration page.

Detection Configuration¶

1. Set the detection frequency to "1 minute".

2. Select the detection interval as "Last 1 minute".

3. Select the detection metrics. Set the query condition here as:

   M::`kube_pod`:(last(`cpu_usage_base100`)) BY `cluster_name_k8s`, ` pod_name`
   

4. Set the trigger condition: When the query result is greater than 95%, an event with the "Critical" severity level is triggered.

Event Notification¶

1. Enter the event title.

2. Define the event notification content.

Alert Configuration¶

Choose whether to associate an alert policy. Once the monitoring meets the trigger conditions, alert messages are immediately sent to the specified notification targets.

No alert policy is selected in this example.

Association¶

Associate the monitor with a dashboard for quick navigation and visual data review.

No association is selected in this example.

Permissions¶

Set the operational permissions for the monitor to ensure users perform configuration operations according to their roles and permission levels.

No permissions are configured in this example.

Viewing Monitors¶

After creating the detection rule, you can view it in the monitor list. Subsequently, all abnormal events triggered by this rule will be displayed in the Event Center.