Cloud Monitor:Create a multi-step detection task

Prerequisites

An alert contact and alert contact group are created. Create an alert contact or an alert contact group.

Background

• To activate site monitoring and learn about billing, Activate Network Analysis and Monitoring.

• If your site has a firewall or access restrictions, add detection point IP addresses to the allowlist. What to do if a detection request is mistaken for an attack or a web crawler?

• Use cases:

  • Monitor business-critical API workflows and configure alert rules.

  • Perform layered network diagnostics by combining protocols such as DNS, PING, MTR, TCP, and HTTP to diagnose availability and performance from DNS resolution through network connectivity to port connectivity and API availability.

Procedure

1. Log on to the Cloud Monitor console.

2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Network Analysis and Monitoring > Site Monitoring.

3. On the Monitoring Tasks tab, from the Create Task drop-down list, click Multi-step Detection.

4. In the Create Task panel, configure the following parameters.

   1. Basic information:

      Parameter	Description
      DtsJobName	The task name. Must be 4 to 100 characters. Supports letters, digits, underscores (_), Chinese characters, hyphens (-), and periods (.).
      Monitoring frequency	The monitoring interval. For example, 1 minute means each detection point probes the target every minute.
      Specify effective period	The active time range for this task.

   2. Define steps:

      Parameter	Description
      Environment variables	Reference variables in step parameters with the placeholder {{$.}}. Parse results from previous steps to update variables for subsequent steps. For sensitive data such as API keys, select Encrypted Storage to mask the data. Note You can add multiple environment variables for use across request steps.
      Multi-step detection	Add Step: Configure parameters for a single request step. Parameter details: Probe from PC detection points over the public network. Note In the detection address, reference custom environment variables with the format {{$.<variable_name>}}, for example, {{$.testurl}}.
      	Add Wait Step: Add a wait period, in seconds, between single-step requests.

   3. Select detection points:

      Parameter	Description
      IP protocol	The IP protocol for detection points. Valid values: IPv4, IPv6, and Automatic.
      	Select detection points from the Recommend, All, or Custom tabs. To create a custom template: Click Manage Custom Templates. In the panel that appears, click Create Template. In the dialog box, enter a Template Name, select the required detection points, and click OK.

   4. Alert rule:

      Parameter	Description
      Alert	Recently continuous: Consecutive monitoring cycles before an alert triggers. Valid values: 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, and 60. Availability rate: Percentage of available detection points: Percentage of successful probes per cycle. Formula: (successful probes / total probes) × 100%. Number of unavailable detection points: Failed probes per monitoring cycle. Number of available detection points: Successful probes per monitoring cycle. Number of DNS hijacking detection points: Detection points that detected DNS hijacking. Response time: Average Maximum Minimum Metric Value Packet loss rate: Ping packet loss rate Comparison operator for metric values against the threshold. Valid values: >= > <= < = != Day-over-day increase Day-over-day decrease Week-over-week increase Week-over-week decrease Period-over-period increase Period-over-period decrease Alert level: Set a custom threshold for each severity: Critical, Warning, and Info. Note Alert rule details: Set alerts.
      Add alert rule	You can add multiple alert rules.
      Alert contact group	The contact group that receives alert notifications. Select at least one group.

5. Click OK.

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