Watchdog is an algorithmic feature for APM that automatically detects application and infrastructure issues, by continuously observing trends and patterns in application metrics—like error rate, request rate, and latency—and looking for unexpected behavior.
Watchdog monitors allow you to set up monitors and receive alert notifications when Watchdog detects a potential problem in your systems.
Note: Watchdog is an APM feature, and Watchdog monitors are only available to APM customers.
Choose “Watchdog” on the New Monitor page.
The graph at the top of the Create Monitor page shows the number of Watchdog events over time, along with a list of events.
Choosing the “Include triggering tags in notification title” option appends the service name, resource name, and primary tag (e.g. availability-zone) to the title.
{{event.id}}: ID of the event{{event.title}}: Title of the event, which also provides story detailsWatchdog monitors appear in the Manage Monitors page, as well as in the Triggered Monitors page, when you filter for monitors with the type “Watchdog”.
Once you receive an alert, you can see more information about the underlying Watchdog story that triggered the alert by scrolling down the Triggered Monitors page to the events section and clicking on the details link.
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