Overview: Alarms
Valid for VPS and migrated Cloud Servers.
This article explains how you can use alarms to monitor your servers and set up notifications for certain events.
Open Alarms area
- 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.
Create alarm
You can find instructions on how to create an alarm in the following article:
Structure of the alarms area
All the alarms you have configured are listed in a table in the Security > Alarms section of Cloud Panel. This table contains the most important information on the individual alarms:
Name: Name assigned to the alarm. You can change the name at any time.
Status: Current status of the alarm.
Email: Email address to which all alerts for the alarm are sent.
To open up all information on the desired alarm, click on the name of the alarm. The list contains the following additional information:
Description: Description of the alarm. You can change the description at any time.
Properties: Configuration of the alarm. To edit an element, click on the pencil icon.
Created on: Date on which the alarm was set up.
E-mail addresses: Desired email address or addresses to which a notification should be sent. To change an email address, click on the pencil icon. To delete an email address, click on the minus symbol. To add a new email address, enter it in the empty field and click on the green tick symbol.