Alarm
Enterprise Feature
Alarm is available exclusively to enterprise customers and is provisioned on request. To enable it, email our support team.
The Alarm feature in Qntrl enables proactive monitoring of Bridge performance by allowing users to configure alerts based on system metrics. With customizable thresholds and real-time email notifications, alarms help detect anomalies early and ensure uninterrupted operations.
Key Highlights
- Monitors Bridge health with alerts for CPU, Disk, Memory, and Failed Jobs.
- Triggers automatic email notifications when thresholds are breached.
- Supports historical trend analysis for performance insights and capacity planning.
How It Works
Bridge metrics are collected periodically and evaluated against configured thresholds. If a metric crosses the specified threshold, the system triggers an alarm and notifies the configured recipients via email for immediate action.
Alerts can be set for the following parameters:
- CPU Utilization – Prevent system overloads.
- Disk Utilization – Ensure sufficient disk space.
- Memory Utilization – Monitor RAM consumption.
- Failed Jobs – Identify and respond to automation failures.
Benefits of Alarm
- Performance Insights: Tracking parameters like CPU and Disk utilization provides insights into power consumption and system load, helping identify performance bottlenecks.
- Error Detection: Swiftly detects errors that could lead to system failure, ensuring optimal performance.
- Consistent System Health: Monitoring CPU usage, memory utilization, disk usage, and job success ensures these critical attributes stay within acceptable limits, promoting consistent system health and optimal performance.
Create an Alarm
To create an Alarm:
- In the left pane, navigate to Settings (
) >> Advanced >> Bridge >> Alarms.
- Click New Alarm.
- Configure the alarm details:
- Alarm Name: Enter a unique name that identifies the alarm.
- Description: Describe the alarm's purpose for future reference.
- Alarm Type: Select the parameter to monitor:
- CPU Alert: Monitors CPU usage.
- Memory Alert: Monitors memory usage.
- Disk Alert: Monitors disk usage.
- Failed Job Alert: Monitors failed jobs.
- Threshold(%): Set the percentage that triggers the alarm for the selected parameter.
- Bridges: Select one, several, or all bridges to apply this alarm to.
- Email Template: Select an existing Circuit-based email template or create a new one. For more information, see Email Templates.
- Under Advanced, set the alert timing:
- Run frequency: Set how often, in minutes, Qntrl checks each bridge for a threshold breach. This is the minimum time between evaluations for a bridge.
- Metric window: Set the recent time span Qntrl evaluates for the threshold check. Qntrl uses metrics from the last N minutes and ignores older data.
- Cooldown period: Set how long the alarm waits before sending another alert for the same breach.
- Click Save.
These three timings work together. For example, with Run frequency at 5 minutes, a Metric window of 15 minutes, and a Cooldown period of 30 minutes, the alarm checks the last 15 minutes of data every 5 minutes, then waits 30 minutes before alerting again on the same breach.
Alarm Management Features
After creating an alarm, the following information can be accessed on the Alarm home page.
Alarm Details
Displays the configuration of each alarm: name, creation time, activation threshold criteria, configured email alerts, and status.
Alarm History
Tracks all instances where the configured alarms breached their predefined thresholds.
Capacity Planning
Provides insights into system load using historical CPU, RAM, and disk data, helping optimize Bridge resource usage.
Edit / Delete an Alarm
- Navigate to
(settings) >> Advanced >> Bridge, then select Alarms.
- Hover over the name of the alarm, click the mouse over action menu, select Edit or Delete, and proceed with the necessary action.