9. Create an Alarm

Create an alarm in the DuploCloud Portal

Creating the Alert

Navigate to Observability -> Alerts, and click Add. The Create Alert pane displays. Complete the fields with the following values:

• Resource Type: EC2

• Resource: [select a previously created EC2 instance]

In the example below, the Friendly Name in the Resource field is host02.

Click Next to proceed with defining metrics data.

The Create Alert pane

Defining Metrics Data

After clicking Next, continue defining the metrics data:

• Metric Name: CPUUtilization

• Statistic: Average

• Operator: >=

• Threshold: 75

• Period: 5 Minutes

• Severity: Critical

Click Create.

The Create Alert page for Metrics data

Set the Alarm with a Third-Party Integration

Navigate to Observability -> Faults -> Update Notifications Config. The Set Alert Notifications Config pane displays.

If instructed, enter additional data and click Update to set the alarm.

The Set Alert Notifications Config pane