# Alarm use cases and examples
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The following sections provides examples and tutorials for alarms for common use cases.

**Topics**
+ [Create a billing alarm to monitor your estimated AWS charges](monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.md)
+ [Create a CPU usage alarm](US_AlarmAtThresholdEC2.md)
+ [Create a load balancer latency alarm that sends email](US_AlarmAtThresholdELB.md)
+ [Create a storage throughput alarm that sends email](US_AlarmAtThresholdEBS.md)
+ [Create an alarm on Performance Insights counter metrics from an AWS database](CloudWatch_alarm_database_performance_insights.md)