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Creating an Amazon CloudWatch alarm

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Creating an Amazon CloudWatch alarm - AWS Private 5G

You can create an alarm in Amazon CloudWatch to monitor a metric. You specify the conditions for CloudWatch to change states. You also specify what actions the alarm must perform when it changes states. For more information, see Using Amazon CloudWatch alarms in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

The following procedure shows you how to create an alarm from the CloudWatch console.

To create an alarm
  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Alarms, In-alarm.

  3. Choose Create alarm.

  4. Choose Select metric.

  5. Choose AWS Private 5G and then choose RadioUnitSerialNumber.

  6. When a list of metrics appears, select the check box next to the metric that you want.

  7. Choose Select metric.

  8. On the Specify metric and conditions page, Metric section, set the following fields:

    • Under Statistic, choose Maximum.

    • Under Period, choose 15 minutes.

  9. In the Conditions section, set the following fields:

    • Under Threshold type, choose Static.

    • Under Define the alarm condition, choose Lower.

    • For Define the threshold value, enter 1.

    • Expand Additional configuration and set Missing data treatment to Treat missing data as bad (breaching threshold).

  10. Choose Next.

  11. On the Configure actions page, set the following fields:

    • Under Alarm state trigger, choose In alarm.

    • Under Send a notification to the following SNS topic, choose Select an existing SNS topic.

      If you do not have an existing SNS topic, create an SNS topic. For more information on setting up an SNS topic, see Setting up Amazon SNS notifications in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

  12. Choose Next.

  13. On the Add name and description page, enter a name for your alarm and optionally, a description.

  14. Choose Next.

  15. On the Preview and create page, review your settings and choose Create alarm.

    The new alarm appears on the Alarms page.

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