Cloud Monitor can deliver alert notifications to Simple Message Queue (SMQ, formerly MNS). Consumer applications poll the queue, retrieve alert messages, and run automated responses based on your business logic -- for example, scaling resources, restarting services, or notifying on-call engineers through custom channels.
How it works
When a Cloud Monitor alert rule triggers, the alert information is delivered through the channels you configure. In addition to text messages and phone calls, Cloud Monitor stores the alert data in an SMQ queue.
The following diagram describes the alert routing flow:
A Cloud Monitor alert rule fires.
Cloud Monitor writes the alert message to the designated SMQ queue.
A consumer application polls the queue and retrieves alert messages.
The consumer runs automated actions based on the alert content.
Set up alert routing to SMQ
For step-by-step instructions on writing Cloud Monitor alert information to an SMQ queue, see Write alert information to SMQ.
Related resources
Cloud Monitor alert rules -- Configure the alert rules that trigger notifications.
SMQ queue operations -- Create queues and consume messages.