If your Alibaba Cloud account has a large number of cloud resources, you can manage these cloud resources by using application groups. To set the same alert rule for multiple application groups, you can create an alert template.
Background information
This topic describes how to set alert rules for Elastic Compute Service (ECS), ApsaraDB RDS, and Server Load Balancer (SLB) instances by using alert templates and application groups. This way, a Cloud Monitor alert system is created.
Procedure
- Create an alert contact.
- Log on to the Cloud Monitor console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- On the Alert Contacts tab of the Alert Contacts page, click Create Alert Contact.
- In the Set Alert Contact pane,set the Name, Email ID, DingTalk Robot, and Alert Notification Information Language parameters.
- Verify the parameters and then click OK.
- Create an alert contact group. For example, you can create a group named InventoryManagementAlertGroup.
- On the Alert Contacts page, click the Alert Contact Group tab.
- On the Alert Contact Group tab, click Create Alert Contact Group.
- In the Create Alert Contact Group pane, specify the contact group name and add alert contacts to the group.
- Click Confirm.
- Create an application group. For example, you can create an application group named
InventoryManagementOnlineEnvironment.
- Create an alert template and apply it to an application group. For example, you can
create an alert template named E-commerceBackgroundModuleTemplate.
- View the health status of instances that match the alert rules in the application
group.