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v2.275.0

CreateAlarmOptions Struct ​

Properties needed to make an alarm from a metric.

Example ​

ts
declare const flow: Flow;
declare const stack: Stack;

// Create a CloudWatch alarm on source bitrate
const alarm = flow.metricSourceBitrate().createAlarm(stack, 'LowBitrate', {
  threshold: 1000000,
  evaluationPeriods: 1,
});

// Monitor unrecovered packets
flow.metricSourceNotRecoveredPackets().createAlarm(stack, 'PacketLoss', {
  threshold: 100,
  evaluationPeriods: 2,
});

// Track total packets with custom options
const totalPackets = flow.metricSourceTotalPackets({
  statistic: 'sum',
  period: Duration.minutes(5),
});

Properties ​

actionsEnabledoptionalbooleanactions_enabledoptionalboolactionsEnabledoptionalBooleanActionsEnabledoptionalboolActionsEnabledoptional*bool= true#
Whether the actions for this alarm are enabled.
alarmDescriptionoptionalstringalarm_descriptionoptionalstralarmDescriptionoptionalStringAlarmDescriptionoptionalstringAlarmDescriptionoptional*string#
Description for the alarm.

Default: No description

alarmNameoptionalstringalarm_nameoptionalstralarmNameoptionalStringAlarmNameoptionalstringAlarmNameoptional*string#
Name of the alarm.

Default: Automatically generated name

comparisonOperatoroptionalComparisonOperatorcomparison_operatoroptionalComparisonOperatorcomparisonOperatoroptionalComparisonOperatorComparisonOperatoroptionalComparisonOperatorComparisonOperatoroptionalComparisonOperator= GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold#
Comparison to use to check if metric is breaching.
datapointsToAlarmoptionalnumberdatapoints_to_alarmoptionalint | floatdatapointsToAlarmoptionalNumberDatapointsToAlarmoptionaldoubleDatapointsToAlarmoptional*float64= ``evaluationPeriods``#
The number of datapoints that must be breaching to trigger the alarm.

This is used only if you are setting an "M out of N" alarm. In that case, this value is the M. For more information, see Evaluating an Alarm in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

evaluateLowSampleCountPercentileoptionalstringevaluate_low_sample_count_percentileoptionalstrevaluateLowSampleCountPercentileoptionalStringEvaluateLowSampleCountPercentileoptionalstringEvaluateLowSampleCountPercentileoptional*string#
Specifies whether to evaluate the data and potentially change the alarm state if there are too few data points to be statistically significant.

Default: Not configured.

Used only for alarms that are based on percentiles.

evaluationPeriodsnumberevaluation_periodsint | floatevaluationPeriodsNumberEvaluationPeriodsdoubleEvaluationPeriods*float64required#
The number of periods over which data is compared to the specified threshold.
thresholdnumberthresholdint | floatthresholdNumberThresholddoubleThreshold*float64required#
The value against which the specified statistic is compared.
treatMissingDataoptionalTreatMissingDatatreat_missing_dataoptionalTreatMissingDatatreatMissingDataoptionalTreatMissingDataTreatMissingDataoptionalTreatMissingDataTreatMissingDataoptionalTreatMissingData= TreatMissingData.Missing#
Sets how this alarm is to handle missing data points.