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Event monitoring

Configuring event monitoring notifications

When ECS instances and dedicated hosts trigger monitoring events, you can receive event notifications via the message center and Cloud Monitor.

Whether you have configured to receive event notifications or not, this does not affect events being displayed in the ECS console. For information about querying and handling events in the console, refer to Querying and handling events.

You can receive event notifications via the message center and Cloud Monitor in a more timely and convenient manner than in the console.

Notification method

The comparisons of message notifications via the message center and Cloud Monitor are as follows. You can choose one notification method as needed or enable both methods.

Notification method	Notification channels	Description
Message center notification	Internal message email SMS Voice message Feishu message WeCom DingTalk	This method is simple and user-friendly. It covers common notification channels and meets your daily needs to receive notifications.
Cloud Monitor notification	Email Phone call SMS Alert callback Message queue Kafka Log service Orchestration	This method involves a longer configuration process, but offers more notification channels. Through this method, you can also configure rules such as notification severity levels and effective time periods. This can meet your needs for integrating event notifications and quickly locating cloud product resources with exceptions.

Message center notification

Certain events are subscribed to by default with notification methods preconfigured. For other events, access the Message Center to subscribe to event messages and configure notification methods. After this, you can receive event notifications.

Relation between event and message type

Event type	Level 1 event type	Level 2 event type
Status change event	Product message	Product Release Notification
Status change event		Operation message	Operation Notification
Scheduled operations events	Operation message	Operation Notification
Unexpected operation and maintenance events	Operation message	Operation Notification
Task status class event	Product message	Product Status Remind
Fees warning	Operation message	Operation Notification

tip

For event categories and event descriptions, refer to Event type summary.

Configure the message recipient: This allows notification messages to be automatically sent to you via internal message, email, SMS, and other channels when an instance triggers a target event.

Configure message robots: This allows notification messages to be automatically sent to you via Feishu robots, WeCom robots, DingTalk group robots, and other channels when an instance triggers a target event.

Cloud Monitor notification

To push alerts to designated personnel via custom channels when an instance triggers a specified monitoring event, you can use Cloud Monitor event alerts. Specifically, you can configure alert rules, recipients, and notification methods to improve configuration granularity. For more information, refer to Creating event rules and Managing event rules.

Procedure

In the left-side navigation pane, select "Maintenance & Monitoring > System Events".

In the top menu bar, select the region and project of your business.

Click the "Cloud Monitor Notification" button to configure relevant event alert rules, recipients, and notification channels. For more information, refer to Creating event rules and Managing event rules.

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