Creating an Alarm

Creating a Basic Alarm provides the basic steps. The following pages describe specific ways to create alarms:

• Creating an Alarm That Splits Messages by Metric Stream
• Creating a Threshold Alarm
• Creating an Absence Alarm
• Editing the MQL Expression When Creating an Alarm

You can also create an alarm from a predefined query. See Creating an Alarm from a Default Metric Chart and Creating an Alarm from a Custom Metric Chart.

For alarm troubleshooting, see Troubleshooting Alarms.