Creating an alarm
Valid for VPS and migrated Cloud Servers.
This article explains how to create an alarm to monitor your servers and receive notifications for certain events.
To create an alarm, complete the following:
- Log in to your IONOS account.
Click on the Servers & Cloud tile. If you have multiple server contracts, select the desired contract.
- To open the Alarms area, click on Security > Alarms in the navigation bar on the left in the Cloud Panel. The Alarms area opens.
- Click on the Create button. The Create alarm area opens.
- Enter a name in the Name field.
- Select a metric in the Metric field.
- Select the desired unit in the Unit field.
- In the Threshold type field, select the desired threshold rule.
- Enter the desired threshold value in the Threshold field. The threshold value must be at least 1.
- Enter the duration in ISO 8601 format in the Range field. Example: To display 1 hour and 10 minutes, enter the duration in the following format: PT1H10M.
- Select the desired type of time range aggregation in the Range aggregation area. You can choose between average or delta.
- Enter the desired alarm delay in ISO-8601 format.
Note
The alarm delay is the time between the configured threshold parameters being exceeded by the monitoring metric and an alarm notification being sent. The minimum time allowed is zero seconds. If you enter zero seconds, an action is triggered immediately as soon as the defined criteria are met. You can also delay the alarm notification by setting a higher value.
- Enter the desired email address or addresses in the E-mail addresses field.
- To create the alert, click on Create.
