Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Suppressing an Alarm

Temporarily stop notifications from an alarm by applying a suppression. For example, use a suppression to suspend alarm notifications during system maintenance. Each suppression applies to a single alarm. In the Console, you can apply one definition of a suppression to multiple alarms. The result is an individual suppression for each alarm.

Important

Only one suppression  can be configured per alarm. Any existing suppression for an alarm is overwritten when you apply a new suppression.

Expired suppressions continue to be listed on pages in the Console. A suppression expires when the end time passes.

For alarm troubleshooting, see Troubleshooting Alarms.

To remove a suppression, see Removing a Suppression from an Alarm.
    1. Open the navigation menu and click Observability & Management. Under Monitoring, click Alarm Definitions.
      The page lists alarms in the indicated compartment. Suppression status is indicated for each alarm.
    2. To suppress multiple alarms with a single defined start and end time:
      1. Select the check box for each alarm that you want to suppress.
      2. Click Actions and then select Add suppressions.
      3. In the Suppress Alarms dialog box, provide the following values:
        • Start time: The date and time to start the suppression. The default is the current time.
        • End time: The date and time to end the suppression. The default is one hour from the current time.
        • Suppression description: Optional description of the suppression.
      4. Click Apply suppressions.
    3. To suppress a single alarm:
      1. Click the name of the alarm that you want to suppress.
      2. In the alarm details page, click Suppress alarm. If a suppression already exists for the alarm, click Edit alarm suppression.
      3. In the Add Suppression or Edit Suppression dialog box, provide the following values:
        • Start time: The date and time to start the suppression. The default is the current time. If you’re editing an existing suppression, the field shows the start time of that suppression.
        • End time: The date and time to end the suppression. The default is one hour from the current time. If you’re editing an existing suppression, the field shows the end time of that suppression.
        • Suppression description: Optional description of the suppression.
      4. Click Add suppression.
    Current suppression details are listed on the Alarm Definitions page and on each related alarm details page.

  • Use the oci monitoring alarm update command and required parameters to suppress an alarm:

    oci monitoring alarm update --suppression <file_or_text> [OPTIONS]

    For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference for Monitoring.

  • Run the UpdateAlarm operation to disable an alarm.

    When defining details for UpdateAlarmDetails, set suppress to the configuration details you want. For an example of suppress configuration details, see Suppression.