topic Re: Need assistance with creating a custom alert in Alerting

Need assistance with creating a custom alert

snakhuda — Wed, 12 May 2021 13:27:13 GMT

I have a requirement to create a custom alert definition based on this condition below:

If #Pool consumed size# is greater than 90 percent of #Pool allocated size# then trigger an alert.

Do we have any example to create something like this?

Thank you for your help in advance!

Re: Need assistance with creating a custom alert

ChadTurner — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:36:13 GMT

@Salman N. You will most likely want to create a custom event for alerting. To do this, go to Settings>Anomaly Detection>Create Custom Event for Alerting. Then search for Pool:

Once selected, you can adjust the footprint of the alert as well as the alerting rules. Just make sure you add this custom event as part of your alerting profile to ensure the teams get alerted as desired

Re: Need assistance with creating a custom alert

snakhuda — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 21:29:20 GMT

Chad, thanks for your response. I don't see an option to select multiple metrics. Furthermore, don't see an option to do calculation or insert formula. May i have to create a new custom metric to do the calculation first?

Condition:

If #Pool consumed size# is greater than 90 percent of #Pool allocated size# then trigger an alert.

Re: Need assistance with creating a custom alert

ChadTurner — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 21:42:43 GMT

Ahh yes, the custom events for alerting is only singular, if you need to do calculations first then you will need to look into the custom metrics which will use custom metric licenses. Unfortunately, I don't have much experience in that.

Re: Need assistance with creating a custom alert

snakhuda — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 23:40:32 GMT

Thank you Chad. It doesn't look there is an easy way to do this. i will keep exploring my options. Appreciate your help!

Re: Need assistance with creating a custom alert

ChadTurner — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:12:32 GMT

You should put this in as a RFE 🙂