Setting Up Contextual Notifications for an Instance
You can get messages when something happens with a compute instance. Use contextual notifications in the Console to create event rules and alarms for an instance. Quick start templates are available.
This feature is available in the Console only.
Before You Begin
For administrators: To set up contextual notifications for an instance, use the following policy.
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allow group ContextualNotificationsUsers to manage alarms in tenancy
allow group ContextualNotificationsUsers to read metrics in tenancy
allow group ContextualNotificationsUsers to manage ons-topics in tenancy
allow group ContextualNotificationsUsers to manage cloudevents-rules in tenancy
Steps 🔗
These steps show how to set up a contextual notification for an instance, for the first time.
Open the navigation menu and select Compute. Under Compute, select Instances.
Select the name of the instance that you're interested in.
Select the Notifications tab.
When no notifications exist for the instance, the Notifications tab lists quick start templates.
An example quick start template lets you set up notifications for high CPU usage.
Select the quick start template that you want.
In the Create Notification panel, scroll down to Topics and Subscriptions.
A new topic is automatically set up for you to add contact information to.
Contact Information: Add at least one entry for where you want to receive messages.
Email: Enter an email address.
Slack: Enter a Slack endpoint.
Endpoint format:
Sends a message to the specified Slack channel by default when you publish a message to the subscription's parent topic .