Monitor system performance, get notified when things change, and identify possible causes.
Use Cloud Observability alerts to do the following:
- Create alerts for logs, metrics, or spans.
- Integrate with tools like ServiceNow and PagerDuty to notify people when alerts trigger.
- Use Cloud Observability’s correlation feature to investigate performance changes.
This page describes Cloud Observability alerts at a high level and links to more content to help you get started.
Using Terraform? You can use the Cloud Observability Terraform provider to create and manage your alerts and destinations. You can also use it to export existing alerts into the Terraform format.
Alert example
This section describes an alert in practice.
If your customer Packing Kings is onboarding new clients, you may want to create an alert to monitor request rates. The following alert configuration:
- Sends a warning alert if the average request rate goes above 13 requests per second over two minutes.
- Sends a critical alert if the average request rate goes above 15 requests per second over two minutes.
When average request rates cross alert thresholds, Cloud Observability sends a notification to the configured destination. It also sends a notification once the issue is resolved or the metric goes below the threshold.
Customize alerts with alert templates
Cloud Observability offers five alert templates to help you configure and set up alerts: