Alerts (Beta)
Akamai Cloud Pulse – Alerts monitors key metrics and events in real-time, automatically triggering notifications or actions when predefined thresholds or conditions are met, enabling proactive issue detection and faster incident response.
Alerts:
- Automatically notifies users of critical system events through system alerts
- Supports the creation of custom user alerts based on user-defined metrics thresholds and configuration parameters
- Provides tools to manage both system and custom alerts
Alerts can be accessed through Cloud Manager or using the API.
Alerts is currently available for the Databases service. Support for additional Akamai Cloud services in planned for future releases.
System alerts
A system alert is triggered when preconfigured metric thresholds are met. An email notification is sent to all users with read/write access to the impacted entity. By default, all entities associated with a service are automatically assigned to system alerts.
You can assign and unassign entities to a system alert using the Edit functionality, but you can't change the metrics thresholds. If you need an alert similar to a system alert but with different metrics thresholds, you can create a new user alert, define the desired metrics thresholds, and then reassign entities from the system alert to the newly created alert.
User alerts
You can create custom alerts called user alerts. When you create a user alert, you define the metrics thresholds and dimensions that must be met for the alert to trigger. You also determine the notification channel to be used to alert users. Currently, email is the only type of notification channel available, and the preconfigured Read-Write Channel is the only available channel.
You can only create alerts for the entities to which you have access. All entities assigned to an alert must belong to the same account.
To learn about the details you need to provide to create a user alert, see Alert parameters. For step-by-step instructions, see Create a user alert.
Alert parameters
The following alert parameters are preconfigured for system alerts, and configured by you for user alerts.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| General Information | |
| Name | The name of the alert. |
| Description. | A description of the alert. |
| Service | The Akamai Cloud service to which the alert applies. |
| Severity | The severity of the alert: info, low, medium, or severe. |
| Entities | |
| Region (optional) | The region used to filter the entities list. |
| Entities | The entities to which the alert applies. |
| Alert evaluation criteria | |
| Data field (metric) | The metric being evaluated, for example, CPU Usage, Disk Space Usage, or Memory Usage. Each service supports its own set of metrics. |
| Aggregation type | The statistic that is calculated from the input values: sum, minimum, maximum, or average. |
| Operator | The operator used to evaluate the metric against the threshold: >, < , >= , <= , or =. |
| Threshold | The threshold value (%). |
| Dimension filter (optional) | An optional filter applied as part of the evaluation logic. Dimensions are descriptive attributes or categories that give context to the data. Each service has its own set of supported dimensions. |
| Polling interval | The frequency at which the metric is checked for a change in state. |
| Evaluation period | The time period over which data is collected before evaluating whether the alert criteria has been met. |
| Blip interval | The number of consecutive times the criteria must be met for the alert to be triggered |
Updated 21 days ago