Alarm use cases and examples

The following sections provides examples and tutorials for alarms for common use cases.

Topics

• Create a billing alarm to monitor your estimated AWS charges

• Create a CPU usage alarm

• Create a load balancer latency alarm that sends email

• Create a storage throughput alarm that sends email

• Create an alarm on Performance Insights counter metrics from an AWS database

• Create a fleet monitoring alarm using multiple time series

• Create alarms to stop, terminate, reboot, or recover an EC2 instance