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20-04 Anatomy of an Alarm

Last updated Aug 17, 2023 Edit Source

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# Threshold Condition

Defines when a datapoint is breached


# Evaluation Periods

number of previous periods


# Data point

Represents the metric’s measurement at a given period


# Metric

The actual data we are measuring


# Period

How often it checks to evaluate the Alarm


# NetworkIn

The volume of incoming network traffic. measured in Bytes. When using 5min monitoring divide by 300 to get Bytes/second


# Datapoints to alarm

1 data point is breached in an evaluation period going back 4 periods. This is what triggers the alarm