20-04 Anatomy of an Alarm
# 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