The Setup Alerts page shows details about existing system alerts, and lets you edit them and create new alerts.

Click on "Add Alert" to create a new alert.
Click on the alert name to enter the "alert details" page and edit the alert.

Column	Description
Enabled	Shows whether or not the alert execution will be scheduled to run (this is a read only field, you can change it by editing the alert)
Name	The alert's name, click on the name to go to the Alert details Page - you can edit the alert from there.
Description	A description of the alert - displays the "Query Value" field of the alert
Schedule	When an alert execution will be scheduled - The alert will not be scheduled if it is not enabled, even if this field contains a value
Recipients	"Syslog" and/or the email addresses of the recipients for the alert publishing

Alert Details page

The top part displays the following fields:

Field	Description
Enabled	Whether or not the alert will be scheduled for execution
System Health Metric	Whether or not the alert is a metric
Description	A description of the alert -displays the value of the "Query Value" field of the alert
Product	Product Type
Schedule	When an alert execution will be scheduled (if the alert is not enabled the alert will not be scheduled)
REST URL	The URL to run the alert via REST
Recipients	"Syslog" and/or the email addresses of the recipients for the alert publishing

The top part of the page also contains three buttons:
Test - Execute the alert immediately, the alert will be executed even if it's disabled, this is helpful in case you want to check the alert before actually scheduling it.
Edit - Edit the alert
Delete - Delete the alert

Deleted alert cannot be recovered.

If you simply do not want the alert to run - you can disable it (press "Edit" and uncheck the "Enabled" field)

The lower part of the page displays the results of the recent 20 executions of the alert

Field	Description
Executing User	SCHEDULER - if DPOD run an alert execution via the scheduler REST - if the alert was run via the REST API User name - if a user tested the alert by pressing the "Test" button
Status	The execution status
Status Time	When the status was set
Message	How many alerts were generated (or an error message if a problem occurred)

Add / Edit Alert

The first section contains details about the execution of the alert

Field	Description
Enabled	Whether or not the alert will be scheduled for execution
System Health Metric	Whether or not the alert is a metric
Name	The Alert's name
Product	Gateway or API-C
Schedule	When the alert will be scheduled, the format is identical to the one used to schedule reports
Destination	Specify the alert publishing destinations: Syslog - a syslog record will be written, you'll need to configure the Syslog target server's host name, port and the syslog severity field value (Error, Info, etc) in the System Parameters page. Email - send an email (make sure that "Enable Queries Emails SMTP" is set to true in the System Parameters page) Email WS - send an email via webservice (make sure that "Enable Queries Emails SMTP WS" is set to true in the System Parameters page)
Recipients	if the destination is Email or Email WS - this field will contain the list of recipients

The Alert Details section contains information about how the alert's query will be evaluated

Field	Description
Type	The alert type (more information about the alert types can be found in the the Alerts page)
Query Value	Free text, describes the results returned by the alert's query Press the "Details" button to view the alert query itself
Index Sets	(Hidden by default) Which ElasticSearch index sets will be queried
Document Types	(Hidden by default) Which ElasticSearch document types will be queried
Query (JSON)	(Hidden by default) An ElasticSearch query
Parameters (JSON)	(Hidden by default) Named parameters to replace placeholders in the query. i.e:
Query Period	The time frame for the alert's query
Operator	Operator for the alert's query
Threshold	The value to compare the query's result to (not applicable for alert types "any" and "list"Border
Field Name	Only applicable for alert type "list"
Value List	Only applicable for alert type "list" - the list of values delimited by the delimiter specified in the "delimiter" field

The Alert Filters section lets you specify additional criteria for the alert's query according to the product type and document type

Field	Description	Applicable Product Type
Device	Which DataPower devices the alert's query should check	Gateway/API-C
Domain	Which DataPower domains the alert's query should check	Gateway/API-C
Service	Which DataPower services the alert's query should check	Gateway
Catalog	Which API-C catalog names the alert's query should check	API-C
Space	Which API-C space names the alert's query should check	API-C
Product	Which API-C product names the alert's query should check	API-C
Plan	Which API-C plan names the alert's query should check	API-C
API Name	Which API-C names the alert's query should check	API-C
API Version	Which API-C versions the alert's query should check	API-C
App Name	Which API-C names the alert's query should check	API-C

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