How to Create Alerts and Set Up Monitoring in App Platform

In addition to viewing insights, you can monitor and set up alerts for certain events. App Platform provides the following app-level and resource-level alerts:

• App alerts: The following events can trigger app-level alerts:

  • Started deployment
  • Failed deployment
  • Cancelled deployment
  • Successful deployment
  • Failed domain configuration
  • Successful domain configuration
  • Failed to scale
  • Successful scaling
  • Failed job invocation

• Metric alerts for app resources: The following metrics can trigger resource-level alerts:

  • CPU
  • RAM
  • Restart count
  • Function activation count
  • Function average duration
  • Function average wait time

By default, when you create a new app, App Platform creates email alerts for failed deployments and failed domain configurations.

Set Up App Alerts

To manage alert policies, go to the Apps page, select your app, then click the Settings tab.

In the Alert Policies section, click Edit. Click an alert to expand it, then enable or disable it. Set the notification method to be email or Slack. When finished, click Save.

Monitor Resource Metrics

You can configure alerts for metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, or restart counts. Alerts are triggered when a metric is above or below a specified threshold for a defined duration. You can apply alerts to all components or only to specific ones.

To set a metric alert, go to the Apps page, select your app, then click the Settings tab.

On the Settings page, scroll to the Alert Policies section and click Edit. In the INSIGHTS section, click Create Alert Policy.

In the Add Alert Policy section:

• Select an option in the Metric dropdown menu.
• Select Above or Below.
• Enter a value in the Threshold % field.
• Select an option in the Duration dropdown menu.
• Enter an email address or click Connect Slack to receive alert notifications.
• Select the components you want the alert policy to apply to.
• Click Save.