Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Setting an Alarm and Notification

The Alarms feature of the Monitoring service works with the Notifications service to notify you when metrics meet alarm-specified triggers. Access the alarm functionality from Fleet and Java Runtime Runtime metrics to set an alarm.

Note

See Create a Query for more information about using queries to set specific alarms.
  1. Select a feature that you want to query.
    1. For monitoring Managed Instances from Fleet Metrics, find Managed Instance chart from Fleet Metrics in the Fleet details page.
    2. For monitoring Applications from Fleet Metrics, from the Fleet Metrics page in the Fleet details, find the Application chart.
    3. For monitoring Managed Instances from Java Runtime Metrics, from the Java Runtime details page, find the Managed Instance chart.
    4. For monitoring Applications from Java Runtime Metrics, from the Java Runtime details page, find the Application chart.
  2. From one of the available charts, select Create an Alarm on this Query from the Options dropdown.

    You'll be redirected to the Create Alarm workflow in the Monitoring service.

  3. Follow the prompts in the page to create an alarm.
    See Best Practices for Your Alarms for detailed information about when and how to use alarms.
  4. For the Notification, from the Destinations pane, select a destination service and compartment. Enter a topic or Create a topic.
  5. Create a subscription protocol and select a message format.
  6. Select Save alarm when you're finished.