Set event notifications

Benefits

CloudMonitor supports a wide range of cloud service events. For more information, see Cloud service events.

ECS system events include O&M events, fault detection, instance status changes, and configuration changes. For more information, see System events.

You can subscribe to one or more specific events to receive the corresponding event notifications. Based on the notifications, you can review the resource changes and determine the appropriate next steps to ensure your services run normally.

You can also configure message-oriented middleware to automate O&M and call API actions and SDKs.

Procedure

After your ECS instance reports events to CloudMonitor, you can set event notifications by completing the following steps on the CloudMonitor console:

1. Log on to the CloudMonitor console.
2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Event Monitoring.
3. On the Event Monitoring page, click the Alarm Rules tab.
4. On the Alarm Rules tab page, click the System Event tab, and then click Create Event Alerts.
5. In the Create / Modify Event Alerts dialog box, set parameters as follows:
   • Set event filter criteria.
     • Event Type: Select System Event.
     • Product Type: Select ECS.
     • Event Level: Select one or more levels of event severity to which you want to subscribe. Values: CRITICAL | WARN | INFO.
     • Event Name: Select the names of the events to which you want to subscribe. For more information, see Overview of event notifications.
       Note We recommend that you do not select All Events. Instead, we recommend that you create different levels of event notifications based on the impacts of events on services.
     • Resource Range: When you select All Resources, notifications are sent for all resource-related events.
   • Set the notification method and message-oriented middleware.
     • Notification Method

       We recommend that you select email as the method for receiving notifications. We also recommend that you do not select INFO as a security level for which to receive notifications to reduce the number of notifications sent to your account.

     • Message-oriented middleware

       You can enable MNS queue, Function service (Function Compute), URL callback, or Log service as the message-oriented middleware so that the system handles events automatically.

   
   
   
6. Click OK.

Result

After you set event notifications, the configured ECS instance sends notifications by using the specified method once events are detected. The following is a default notification in JSON format that is sent when the system detects a change regarding the status of your ECS instance:

{
    "eventTime": "20181226T220114.058+0800",
    "id": "9435EAD6-3CF6-4494-8F7A-3A********77",
    "level": "INFO",
    "name": "Instance:StateChange",
    "product": "ECS",
    "regionId": "cn-hangzhou",
    "resourceId": "acs:ecs:cn-hangzhou:169070********30:instance/i-bp1ecr********5go2go",
    "userId": "169070********30",
    "ver": "1.0",
    "content": {
        "resourceId": "i-bp1ecr********5go2go",
        "resourceType": "ALIYUN::ECS::Instance",
        "state": "Stopping"
    }
}