Types of Alerts in LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor can generate alerts on a variety of components in the platform. The following table explains the components that can trigger alerts and examples of different types of alert IDs associated with each: Component Description Alert Type Example DataSources DataSources define the numerical data, called datapoints, that are collected through periodic polling from a Collector. … Continued

What do the different alert severities mean?

LogicMonitor categorizes alerts into one of three alert severity levels: critical, error, or warning. When configuring alerting conditions for various aspects of your environment, you can assign alert severity levels as appropriate. As discussed next, alert severities are intended to provide an indication of how serious an issue is and, therefore, how promptly it needs … Continued

Managing Alerts from the Alerts Page

The Alerts page displays all alerts for your LogicMonitor account. Accessible from the primary left navigation bar, the Alerts page allows you to filter, sort, view details for, and respond to alerts. In addition to the global Alerts page, you’ll find filtered alerts pages on the Alerts tabs. These are available from the detail pages of … Continued

Tuning Static Thresholds for Datapoints

Receiving too many meaningless LogicMonitor alert notifications can ultimately lead to people ignoring important alerts. On the other hand, not receiving a key alert could result in service downtime or even an outage. One of the keys to avoiding both of these undesirable situations is to tune static datapoint thresholds for your unique environment. Datapoints, … Continued

Disabling Alerting

Sometimes, you don’t need to know about conditions that would generate an alert—as the device being monitored may not be in production, or performance issues are not a cause for concern, just availability. In these cases, you can disable alerting for a resource, a website, an EventSource, or a group of resources or websites. You … Continued

Cluster Alerts

Overview Cluster alerts monitor and alert on datapoints across multiple resources in a resource group. They are designed to provide quick insight into the overall state of a collection of devices or cloud resources. For example, this can be useful when you have a pool of resources that are serving an application or performing a … Continued