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Set Up Advanced Alerts for Graphs in Custom Dashboards

This feature is available only if your organization has the Anypoint Integration Advanced package or a Titanium subscription to Anypoint Platform. For more information, see the Pricing and Packaging documentation.

You can set up advanced alerts to trigger email notifications when a data point you are measuring passes a specified threshold. Advanced alerts are listed in the Alerts page in Anypoint Monitoring.

When you configure an advanced alert for a graph, an alert state icon appears at the top of the graph.

Line chart showing CPU usage over time with an alert state of OK

Hover over the bell icon to trigger a description popup. In this case, the description indicates Status OK.

Alert states are defined as follows:

No data

No data is available in the series to evaluate the alert threshold.

Disabled

The alert is disabled.

Alerting

The value of the metric passes the specified threshold.

OK

The value of the metric has not passed the threshold.

Pending

The alert is enabled and waiting for evaluation.

Create an Advanced Alert

Advanced Alert Configuration
  1. Navigate to the configuration screen for a graph in a custom dashboard. For guidance, see Configuring Custom Dashboards.

  2. Provide a general configuration for the graph that (at minimum) defines the metric, environment, and resource for which you want to set the advanced alert.
    For guidance, see General Settings.

  3. Navigate to the Alert configuration tab for the graph.

  4. Click Create Alert.

  5. Use Alert Config to configure the alert. See Alert Config.

  6. Configure email notifications when an advanced alert is triggered. See Notifications.

  7. Click Save Changes.

  8. Click X to exit the configuration and return to the dashboard.

Note that you can also view state history and delete alerts.

Configure an Advanced Alert

In the Alert Config section, configure the condition under which an advanced alert is triggered.

Settings for Advanced Alerts

Name

A title for your advanced alert

Severity level

The severity level of your alert.

Condition

WHEN: For triggering an advanced alert when the metric being measured is above a specified level

Available severity levels:

Info

May be assigned to alerts that do not require immediate attention when triggered. This severity indicates the metric should be passively monitored.

Warning

May be assigned to alerts that require prompt attention when triggered. This severity indicates an alert should be closely monitored.

Critical

May be assigned to alerts that require immediate attention when triggered. This severity indicates an alert should receive an immediate response.

Notifications

Configure an email notification when an advanced alert is triggered.

Notification Settings for Advanced Alerts

Send To

Email address for each recipient of the advanced alert notification. If you add or change the email address of an alert recipient, they do not receive an email until the alert is triggered.

Message

Message to send to the recipient.

State History

View the last fifty state changes in this section of the UI.

You can also clear the history.

Delete

To delete an advanced alert, click Delete on the menu in the Alerts tab, and then confirm your deletion.