Enable Alert

🎬 Video Tutorial: Enabling an Alert (3 mins)

Enabling an alert

📋 Step-by-Step: Enabling an Alert

• Log in to the Edge Signal platform

• Navigate to Alert Configuration in the ADMINISTRATION section of the sidebar

• Expand and select Channels then click the Add New button (top right-hand corner) to define a channel of users to be notified when the alert is triggered

Add new channel

• Enter a Channel Name

• Channel Type is currently email only (the drop-down for channel type selection is temporarily inactive)

• Enter the email addresses of the Recipients to be notified when an alert is triggered (hit 'enter' after each address)

• Click the Create Channel button

Define new channel

• Navigate back to Alert Configuration in the ADMINISTRATION section of the sidebar, expand and select Rules and click the Add New button at the top right

Add new alert rule

• Select the project or projects to which this rule will apply

• Enter a meaningful Alert Name

• Select which Alert Channels will be notified when the alert is triggered

• Choose an Alert Source

Note: The Alert Source can be application metrics, device metrics, or a custom alert that is triggered from an application that uses the Edge Signal SDK library. For custom alerts, please refer to the documentation found here: https://docs.edgesignal.io/product-docs/alerts/custom-alerts

• Define the Alert Conditions

• Click the Create Rule button

Alert rule defined: CPU > 80% usage = triggered

• Navigate to Alerts in the SERVICES side menu section, to view the Triggered Alerts list to monitor the alert

• If an alert is triggered, it will be displayed in the Status column

Triggered status

• Email notifications will be sent to the channel recipients as configured

Alert email sent

• When the alert conditions have been cleared, refresh the Triggered Alerts page and the alert Status will now display Recovered (this may take a few minutes)

Alert status - recovered