https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Using-missing-data-settings-to-alert-for-availability/m-p/212603#M26387 <P>Hi community,</P><P>I'm trying to create an alerting profile to track Azure SQL Managed Instance <STRONG>availability </STRONG>(alert when no instance is detected). However, there isn't any metric events related to that.&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="leonatay_0-1684436027679.png" style="width: 483px;"><img src="https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/11734i220C5D207FF96259/image-dimensions/483x233?v=v2" width="483" height="233" role="button" title="leonatay_0-1684436027679.png" alt="leonatay_0-1684436027679.png" /></span></P><P>I thought of several workarounds:</P><P>1. Creating a formula to alert when io_bytes_read + io_bytes_written = 0.&nbsp;</P><P>2. Create a metric events and toggle on the "alert during missing events" button.</P><P>Does anyone have any experience regarding this?</P><P>Appreciate any feedback, thank you!</P><P>-Leona</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 18 May 2023 19:06:55 GMT leonatay 2023-05-18T19:06:55Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Using-missing-data-settings-to-alert-for-availability/m-p/212603#M26387 <P>Hi community,</P><P>I'm trying to create an alerting profile to track Azure SQL Managed Instance <STRONG>availability </STRONG>(alert when no instance is detected). However, there isn't any metric events related to that.&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="leonatay_0-1684436027679.png" style="width: 483px;"><img src="https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/11734i220C5D207FF96259/image-dimensions/483x233?v=v2" width="483" height="233" role="button" title="leonatay_0-1684436027679.png" alt="leonatay_0-1684436027679.png" /></span></P><P>I thought of several workarounds:</P><P>1. Creating a formula to alert when io_bytes_read + io_bytes_written = 0.&nbsp;</P><P>2. Create a metric events and toggle on the "alert during missing events" button.</P><P>Does anyone have any experience regarding this?</P><P>Appreciate any feedback, thank you!</P><P>-Leona</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 18 May 2023 19:06:55 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Using-missing-data-settings-to-alert-for-availability/m-p/212603#M26387 leonatay 2023-05-18T19:06:55Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Using-missing-data-settings-to-alert-for-availability/m-p/214510#M26757 <P>I can confirm that option 2 is the easiest method to alert on data gaps. But note this is only available for Metric Selector and not Metric Keys.&nbsp;</P> Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:47:15 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Using-missing-data-settings-to-alert-for-availability/m-p/214510#M26757 ChadTurner 2023-06-08T19:47:15Z