Event monitoring gathers information about product failures, O&M events, and custom business anomalies. It summarizes event statistics by product, level, name, and application group. This helps you associate events with resources and troubleshoot problems. You can set notification recipients and methods for custom events to ensure that critical issues are not missed. Event monitoring also records event details, which helps you quickly analyze and identify the root cause of problems.
The custom event feature will be discontinued on September 14, 2024.
Product events
Event monitoring provides a centralized location to query and view statistics for system events from various cloud products. This lets you monitor their operational status. After you classify resources into application groups, system events from the products are automatically associated with the resources in those groups. This helps you integrate different types of monitoring information and quickly analyze and identify problems when a business failure occurs.
Cloud Monitor also provides an alert service for events. You can configure alerts based on event levels and receive notifications through text messages, emails, or DingTalk. You can also set alert callbacks. This ensures that you are promptly notified of critical events, which lets you handle them and create a closed loop for automated O&M.
Event monitoring provides query and alert services for product failures and O&M events. For more information about the product events that Cloud Monitor supports, see Supported cloud products and their system events.
Custom events
Event monitoring provides features to report, query, and create alerts for event-type data. This lets you collect and report various anomalies or important change events from your business to Cloud Monitor and receive alerts when anomalies occur. The following figure shows how custom event monitoring works.
Custom event monitoring differs from custom monitoring in the following ways:
Custom event monitoring is used for reporting, querying, and creating alerts for non-continuous, event-type monitoring data.
Custom monitoring is used for reporting, querying, and creating alerts for time series monitoring data that is collected continuously at regular intervals.
Alert service and automated O&M
Event monitoring supports multiple notification methods to facilitate automated O&M.
Notification method | Description |
Alert notification | Receive alert notifications through voice calls, text messages, emails, or DingTalk groups. |
Queue service | Events can be written to your Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS) queue. You can then integrate Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS) with your own O&M system. |
Function Compute | Events can trigger your Function Compute service to perform subsequent O&M logic. |
Alert callback | Push alert notifications to a specified public URL using HTTP POST requests. This URL can be part of your existing O&M or notification system. After you receive a notification, you can perform further actions based on its content. |