Events: Defining What Conditions are of Interest

When a metric threshold value is reached, a metric alert is raised. A metric alert is a type of event. An event is a significant occurrence that indicates a potential problem; for example, either a warning or critical threshold for a monitored metric has been crossed. Other examples of events include: database instance is down, a configuration file has been changed, job executions ended in failure, or a host exceeded a specified percentage CPU utilization. Two of the most important event types used in enterprise monitoring are:

• Metric Alert

• Target Availability

For more information on events and available event types for which you can monitor, see Using Incident Management.