Manage alert rules and groups

You can perform the following actions from the GDC console regarding Observability alert rules and groups for system monitoring:

Before you begin

To get the permissions you need to manage alert rules and groups, ask your Project IAM Admin to grant you the Project Cortex Alertmanager Editor (project-cortex-alertmanager-editor) role in your project namespace.

Update alert rule groups

Alert rule groups contain alert rules. Select a rule group from the list and edit the rule group details.

Update alert rule groups in a project from the GDC console:

  1. In the GDC console, select a project.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Operations > Alerting.
  3. Click the Alerting Policy tab.
  4. View the list of alert rule groups.
  5. Click a rule group name that has the Editable value in the Permissions column.
  6. In the rule group details page, click Edit next to the field that you want to update, such as Limit.
  7. Edit the value and click Save.

Delete alert rule groups

Select a rule group from the list and entirely delete the group. When you delete an alert rule group, the alert rules associated with the group are also deleted.

Delete alert rule groups in a project from the GDC console:

  1. In the GDC console, select a project.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Operations > Alerting.
  3. Click the Alerting Policy tab.
  4. Click the name of the rule group that you want to delete. The rule group must have the Editable value in the Permissions column so you can delete it.
  5. Click Delete.
  6. In the confirmation dialog, click Confirm to delete.

Update alert rules

Select a rule group from the list and edit an alert rule that belongs to the group.

Update alert rules in a project from the GDC console:

  1. In the GDC console, select a project.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Operations > Alerting.
  3. Click the Alerting Policy tab.
  4. Click the name of the rule group that contains the rule that you want to update. The rule group must have the Editable value in the Permissions column so you can update its alert rules.
  5. In the Alert rules section, click a rule that is editable.
  6. In the Edit alert rule page, edit the values and click Save.

Delete alert rules

Select a rule group from the list and delete an alert rule that belongs to the group.

Delete alert rules in a project from the GDC console:

  1. In the GDC console, select a project.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Operations > Alerting.
  3. Click the Alerting Policy tab.
  4. Click the name of the rule group that contains the rule that you want to delete. The rule group must have the Editable value in the Permissions column so you can delete its alert rules.
  5. In the Alert rules section, select the check box for the rule that you want to delete.
  6. Click Delete.
  7. In the confirmation dialog, click Confirm to delete.