We are publishing custom Cloudwatch metrics from our service and want to set up alarms if the value for a metric name breaches a threshold for any dimension. Here are the metrics we are publishing:
We want to set up an alarm so that a Fault
across any dimension puts it into the Alarm
state.
As you can see, the value for dimension Operation is different. Currently, we only have these 3 operations, so I understand we can use metric math to set up this alarm. But I am sure we will get to a point where this will keep growing.
I am able to use SEARCH expression + aggregate across search expression to generate a graph for it, but it does not let me create an alarm saying The expression for an alarm must include at least one metric.
Is there any other way I can achieve this?
Alarming directly on SEARCH is not supported yet. You would have to create a metric math expression where you list all 3 metrics, then create an expression that takes the max of the 3, like MAX(METRICS())
. Make sure only the expression is marked as visible so that there is only 1 line on the graph.