You can save alert rules for metrics of various cloud services as a template. If you have a large amount of resources to monitor, alert templates can save you a lot of effects in defining alert rules. When you create or modify alert rules, you can apply alert templates without defining each alert rule from scratch.
Background information
- Alert templates must be used together with application groups. You can create an application group, and then create and apply an alert template to the application group to create alert rules for the application group. This simplifies the creation and maintenance of alert rules. For more information about how to create an application group, see Create an application group.
- You must obey the following limits when you create an alert template:
- You can create up to 100 alert templates for each Alibaba Cloud account.
- Each alert template can contain up to 30 metrics.