Probe alarms

You can create Amazon CloudWatch alarms based on Network Synthetic Monitor metrics, just as you can for other Amazon CloudWatch metrics. Any alarm that you create will appear in the probe's Status column of the Monitor details section of the Network Synthetic Monitor dashboard when the alarm is triggered. The status will either be OK or In Alarm. If no status displays for a probe, then no alarm was created for that probe.

For example, you can create an alarm based on the Network Synthetic Monitor metric PacketLoss, and configure it to send a notification when the metric is higher than a value that you choose. You configure alarms for Network Synthetic Monitor metrics following the same guidelines as for other CloudWatch metrics.

The following metrics are available under AWS/NetworkMonitor when creating a CloudWatch alarm for Network Synthetic Monitor.

For the steps to create a Network Synthetic Monitor alarm in CloudWatch, see Create a CloudWatch alarm based on a static threshold.