Configure threshold alert settings
You can configure threshold alert settings that monitor when a specific metric crosses a defined boundary. When the conditions configured in the alert settings are met, the ExtraHop system generates a threshold alert, which you can view in the Alert History.
Threshold alerts are useful for monitoring occurrences such as SLA-violations or error rates that surpass a comfortable percentage. For example, you can configure threshold alert settings that generate alerts when an HTTP 500 status code is observed more than 100 times during a ten minute period.
Before configuring alert settings, determine which metric you want to monitor and the conditions the metric must meet for the ExtraHop system to generate a threshold alert.
Next steps
- Alerts cannot be generated until you assign an alert configuration to a source.
- Assign an exclusion interval to an alert to suppress alerts during specific times.
- Add a notification to an alert configuration to receive emails or SNMP traps when an alert is generated.
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