# Setting Monitoring Alarm Rules

#### Scenarios

Setting alarm rules allows you to customize the monitored objects and notification policies and determine the running status of your ECS instances at any time.

#### Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select the desired region and project.
3. Under Management & Deployment, select Cloud Eye.
4. In the navigation pane, choose Alarm Management > Alarm Rules.
5. On the Alarm Rules page, click Create Alarm Rule to create an alarm rule for the AS service or modify an existing alarm rule of the AS service.
6. After setting the parameters, click Create.
   - For more information about how to set alarm rules, see Cloud Eye User Guide.
   - You can create alarm rules on the Cloud Eye console to dynamically expand resources.

Parent topic: AS Group and Instance Monitoring