# Setting Alarm Rules

#### Scenarios

Setting ECS alarm rules allows you to customize the monitored objects and notification policies so that you can closely monitor your ECSs.

This section describes how to set ECS alarm rules, including alarm rule names, monitoring objects, monitoring metrics, alarm thresholds, monitoring intervals, and notifications.

#### Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select your region and project.
3. Under Management & Deployment, click Cloud Eye.
4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Alarm Management > Alarm Rules.
5. On the Alarm Rules page, click Create Alarm Rule to create an alarm rule, or modify an existing alarm rule.

   The following operations use modifying an existing alarm rule as an example.

   1. Click the target alarm rule.
   2. Click Modify in the upper right corner of the page.
   3. In the Modify Alarm Rule dialog box shown in Figure 1, set the parameters as prompted.
      Figure 1 Modifying an alarm rule
   4. Click OK.

      After an alarm rule is modified, the system automatically notifies you of an alarm when the alarm complying with the alarm rule is generated.

   For more information about ECS alarm rules, see Cloud Eye User Guide.

Parent topic: Monitoring