Create and view alarms
From the Alarms tab on your endpoint details page, you can
view and create simple static threshold metric alarms, where you specify a threshold
value for a metric. If the metric breaches the threshold value, the alarm goes into
the ALARM
state. For more information about CloudWatch alarms, see Using Amazon CloudWatch
alarms.
In the Endpoint summary section, you can view the Alarms field, which tells you how many alarms are currently active on your endpoint.
To view which alarms are in the ALARM
state, choose the
Alarms tab. The Alarms tab shows you a
full list of your endpoint alarms, along with details about their status and
conditions. The following screenshot shows a list of alarms in this section that
have been configured for an endpoint.

An alarm’s status can be In alarm
, OK
, or
Insufficient data
if there isn’t enough metrics data being
collected.
To create a new alarm for your endpoint, do the following:
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In the Alarms tab, choose Create alarm.
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The Create alarm page opens. For Alarm name, enter a name for the alarm.
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(Optional) Enter a description for the alarm.
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For Metric, choose the CloudWatch metric that you want the alarm to track.
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For Variant name, choose the endpoint model variant that you want to monitor.
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For Statistic, choose one of the available statistics for the metric you selected.
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For Period, choose the time period to use for calculating each statistical value. For example, if you choose the Average statistic and a 5 minute period, each data point monitored by the alarm is the average of the metric’s data points at 5 minute intervals.
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For Evaluation periods, enter the number of data points that you want the alarm to consider when evaluating whether to enter the alarm state or not.
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For Condition, choose the conditional that you want to use for your alarm threshold.
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For Threshold value, enter the desired value for your threshold.
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(Optional) For Notification, you can choose Add notification to create or specify an Amazon SNS topic that receives a notification when your alarm state changes.
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Choose Create alarm.
After creating your alarm, you can return to the Alarms tab to view its status at any time. From this section, you can also select the alarm and either Edit or Delete it.