Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating a CPU Utilization Alarm

The following is an example task for creating a CPU utilization metric alarm.

See Alarm Details.
  1. Open the navigation menu and click Analytics & AI. Under Data Lake, click Big Data Service.
  2. Click the cluster name you want to create an alarm for.
    The Cluster details page is displayed.
  3. Click the node you want to create the alarm for.
  4. In the CPU utilization metric window, click Options > Create an alarm on this query.
  5. Fill in the following fields:
    • Alarm name - Non-optimal Alarm
    • Alarm severity - Warning
    • Alarm body - Non-optimal usage detected. An application or process might be consuming more CPU than usual.
    • Compartment (under Metrics) - Select the compartment (Auto-populated with current compartment)
    • Trigger rule:
      • operator - between
      • Value - 60
      • Value - 80
      • Trigger delay minutes - 10
    • Destination service - Notification
    • Compartment (under Define alarm notifications > Destination) - Select the appropriate compartment.
  6. Click Create topic and enter the following information:
    • Topic name - Operations Team
    • Topic description - Resource Monitoring Channel
    • Subscription protocol - Email
    • Subscription email - Enter an email address
    • Message format - End formatted messages
  7. Click Create topic and subscription.
  8. Click Repeat notification, and enter 24 hours.
  9. Click Enable this alarm.
  10. Click Save alarm.