Alarms

Alarms

Alarms

Alarms

Cloudmon's alarm system provides early warning across your entire monitored infrastructure. Configure threshold-based rules, reduce alert noise with consecutive interval logic, automate remediation, and manage open and closed alarms from a single view.

Cloudmon significantly reduces alarm noise by only firing when a condition persists across a defined number of consecutive polling intervals, not on every momentary spike. This approach reduces IT operator fatigue and keeps the alarm list focused on real, sustained problems. Default alarm profiles are automatically assigned to monitored entities to provide basic alerting from day one, and can be cloned and customised as needed.

Where to find it: Active and historical alarms are accessible from the Alarms menu in the top navigation bar. Alarm rules are configured under Settings → Configurations → Alarm Rules.

What the Alarm system gives you

Threshold-based rules
Define IF/THEN triggers on any metric across any monitored entity. Set severity, notification recipients, third party services, and automated runbook execution.
Noise reduction
Consecutive interval logic ensures alarms fire only on sustained conditions, not transient spikes. Default profiles can be cloned and tailored to your environment.
Automated remediation
Attach runbooks to alarm triggers to automatically restart services, clear caches, or run any custom script when an alarm fires on an agent-monitored device.
Group-level coverage
Associate alarm rules with device groups to apply consistent settings across all entities of the same type without configuring each one individually.
Acknowledgement and closure
Acknowledge active alarms to signal they are being worked on, and close them with an optional reason for post-incident tracking and audit.
Device dependencies
Suppress notifications for dependent devices when their parent device is down, preventing cascading alarm noise from a single upstream failure.

Alarm Articles

How to Configure Alarm Rules
Create and manage alarm rules, configure triggers, associate rules to groups, and set up automated remediation for any monitored entity.
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Open and Closed Alarms
View, acknowledge, and close active alarms. Review alarm history and filter by entity, severity, or time range.
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Start configuring alarms
Create your first alarm rule under Settings → Configurations → Alarm Rules and associate it to a device group for immediate coverage.