I'm new with AWS and I'm having a very stupid question. I'm getting AWS Notifications emails a few times a day with the following content:
You are receiving this email because your Amazon CloudWatch Alarm "cb9978ge CPUUtilization" in the US-West-2 region has entered the ALARM state, because "Threshold Crossed: 1 datapoint (99.666) was greater than or equal to the threshold (80.0)." at "Tuesday 03 December, 2013 04:33:06 UTC". Alarm Details: - Name: cb9978ge CPUUtilization - Description: cb9978ge CPUUtilization - State Change: OK -> ALARM - Reason for State Change: Threshold Crossed: 1 datapoint (99.666) was greater than or equal to the threshold (80.0). - Timestamp: Tuesday 03 December, 2013 04:33:06 UTC - AWS Account: 468642797431 Threshold: - The alarm is in the ALARM state when the metric is GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold 80.0 for 300 seconds. Monitored Metric: - MetricNamespace: AWS/EC2 - MetricName: CPUUtilization - Dimensions: [InstanceId = i-cb9978ge] - Period: 300 seconds - Statistic: Average - Unit: not specified State Change Actions: - OK: - ALARM: [arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:468642797431:cb9978ge_CPUUtilization_80percent_for5mins_ormore] - INSUFFICIENT_DATA:
Does anyone know what it means?
Thanks a lot
the alarm that you created is cb9978ge CPUUtilization
.
This alarm will monitor instance i-cb9978ge
for CPUUtilization
. If Average CPUUtilization
of this instance goes beyond 80%
for a consecutive 300 seconds
, then this Alarm gets triggered
.
The trigger action
for this alarm is to send you an email
via SNS topic.