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About PutMetricAlarm

Creates or updates an alarm and associates it with the specified metric, metric math expression, anomaly detection model, Metrics Insights query, or PromQL query. For more information about using a Metrics Insights query for an alarm, see Create alarms on Metrics Insights queries.

Alarms based on anomaly detection models cannot have Auto Scaling actions.

When this operation creates an alarm, the alarm state is immediately set to INSUFFICIENT_DATA. For PromQL alarms, the alarm state is instead immediately set to OK. The alarm is then evaluated and its state is set appropriately. Any actions associated with the new state are then executed.

When you update an existing alarm, its state is left unchanged, but the update completely overwrites the previous configuration of the alarm.

If you are an IAM user, you must have Amazon EC2 permissions for some alarm operations:

  • The iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole permission for all alarms with EC2 actions

  • The iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole permissions to create an alarm with Systems Manager OpsItem or response plan actions.

The first time you create an alarm in the Amazon Web Services Management Console, the CLI, or by using the PutMetricAlarm API, CloudWatch creates the necessary service-linked role for you. The service-linked roles are called AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchEvents and AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchAlarms_ActionSSM. For more information, see Amazon Web Services service-linked role.

Each PutMetricAlarm action has a maximum uncompressed payload of 120 KB.

Cross-account alarms

You can set an alarm on metrics in the current account, or in another account. To create a cross-account alarm that watches a metric in a different account, you must have completed the following pre-requisites:

  • The account where the metrics are located (the sharing account) must already have a sharing role named CloudWatch-CrossAccountSharingRole. If it does not already have this role, you must create it using the instructions in Set up a sharing account in Cross-account cross-Region CloudWatch console. The policy for that role must grant access to the ID of the account where you are creating the alarm.

  • The account where you are creating the alarm (the monitoring account) must already have a service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchCrossAccount to allow CloudWatch to assume the sharing role in the sharing account. If it does not, you must create it following the directions in Set up a monitoring account in Cross-account cross-Region CloudWatch console.

Method Signature

METHODS /AWS1/IF_CWT~PUTMETRICALARM
  IMPORTING
    !IV_ALARMNAME TYPE /AWS1/CWTALARMNAME OPTIONAL
    !IV_ALARMDESCRIPTION TYPE /AWS1/CWTALARMDESCRIPTION OPTIONAL
    !IV_ACTIONSENABLED TYPE /AWS1/CWTACTIONSENABLED OPTIONAL
    !IT_OKACTIONS TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTRESOURCELIST_W=>TT_RESOURCELIST OPTIONAL
    !IT_ALARMACTIONS TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTRESOURCELIST_W=>TT_RESOURCELIST OPTIONAL
    !IT_INSUFFICIENTDATAACTIONS TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTRESOURCELIST_W=>TT_RESOURCELIST OPTIONAL
    !IV_METRICNAME TYPE /AWS1/CWTMETRICNAME OPTIONAL
    !IV_NAMESPACE TYPE /AWS1/CWTNAMESPACE OPTIONAL
    !IV_STATISTIC TYPE /AWS1/CWTSTATISTIC OPTIONAL
    !IV_EXTENDEDSTATISTIC TYPE /AWS1/CWTEXTENDEDSTATISTIC OPTIONAL
    !IT_DIMENSIONS TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTDIMENSION=>TT_DIMENSIONS OPTIONAL
    !IV_PERIOD TYPE /AWS1/CWTPERIOD OPTIONAL
    !IV_UNIT TYPE /AWS1/CWTSTANDARDUNIT OPTIONAL
    !IV_EVALUATIONPERIODS TYPE /AWS1/CWTEVALUATIONPERIODS OPTIONAL
    !IV_DATAPOINTSTOALARM TYPE /AWS1/CWTDATAPOINTSTOALARM OPTIONAL
    !IV_THRESHOLD TYPE /AWS1/RT_DOUBLE_AS_STRING OPTIONAL
    !IV_COMPARISONOPERATOR TYPE /AWS1/CWTCOMPARISONOPERATOR OPTIONAL
    !IV_TREATMISSINGDATA TYPE /AWS1/CWTTREATMISSINGDATA OPTIONAL
    !IV_EVALUATELOWSAMPLECTPERC00 TYPE /AWS1/CWTEVALUATELOWSAMPLECT00 OPTIONAL
    !IT_METRICS TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTMETRICDATAQUERY=>TT_METRICDATAQUERIES OPTIONAL
    !IT_TAGS TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTTAG=>TT_TAGLIST OPTIONAL
    !IV_THRESHOLDMETRICID TYPE /AWS1/CWTMETRICID OPTIONAL
    !IO_EVALUATIONCRITERIA TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_CWTEVALUATIONCRITERIA OPTIONAL
    !IV_EVALUATIONINTERVAL TYPE /AWS1/CWTEVALUATIONINTERVAL OPTIONAL
  RAISING
    /AWS1/CX_CWTLIMITEXCEEDEDFAULT
    /AWS1/CX_CWTCLIENTEXC
    /AWS1/CX_CWTSERVEREXC
    /AWS1/CX_RT_TECHNICAL_GENERIC
    /AWS1/CX_RT_SERVICE_GENERIC.

IMPORTING

Required arguments:

iv_alarmname TYPE /AWS1/CWTALARMNAME /AWS1/CWTALARMNAME

The name for the alarm. This name must be unique within the Region.

The name must contain only UTF-8 characters, and can't contain ASCII control characters

Optional arguments:

iv_alarmdescription TYPE /AWS1/CWTALARMDESCRIPTION /AWS1/CWTALARMDESCRIPTION

The description for the alarm.

iv_actionsenabled TYPE /AWS1/CWTACTIONSENABLED /AWS1/CWTACTIONSENABLED

Indicates whether actions should be executed during any changes to the alarm state. The default is TRUE.

it_okactions TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTRESOURCELIST_W=>TT_RESOURCELIST TT_RESOURCELIST

The actions to execute when this alarm transitions to an OK state from any other state. Each action is specified as an Amazon Resource Name (ARN). Valid values:

EC2 actions:

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:stop

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:terminate

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:reboot

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:recover

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Stop/1.0

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Terminate/1.0

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Reboot/1.0

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Recover/1.0

Autoscaling action:

  • arn:aws:autoscaling:region:account-id:scalingPolicy:policy-id:autoScalingGroupName/group-friendly-name:policyName/policy-friendly-name

Lambda actions:

  • Invoke the latest version of a Lambda function: arn:aws:lambda:region:account-id:function:function-name

  • Invoke a specific version of a Lambda function: arn:aws:lambda:region:account-id:function:function-name:version-number

  • Invoke a function by using an alias Lambda function: arn:aws:lambda:region:account-id:function:function-name:alias-name

SNS notification action:

  • arn:aws:sns:region:account-id:sns-topic-name

SSM integration actions:

  • arn:aws:ssm:region:account-id:opsitem:severity#CATEGORY=category-name

  • arn:aws:ssm-incidents::account-id:responseplan/response-plan-name

it_alarmactions TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTRESOURCELIST_W=>TT_RESOURCELIST TT_RESOURCELIST

The actions to execute when this alarm transitions to the ALARM state from any other state. Each action is specified as an Amazon Resource Name (ARN). Valid values:

EC2 actions:

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:stop

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:terminate

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:reboot

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:recover

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Stop/1.0

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Terminate/1.0

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Reboot/1.0

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Recover/1.0

Autoscaling action:

  • arn:aws:autoscaling:region:account-id:scalingPolicy:policy-id:autoScalingGroupName/group-friendly-name:policyName/policy-friendly-name

Lambda actions:

  • Invoke the latest version of a Lambda function: arn:aws:lambda:region:account-id:function:function-name

  • Invoke a specific version of a Lambda function: arn:aws:lambda:region:account-id:function:function-name:version-number

  • Invoke a function by using an alias Lambda function: arn:aws:lambda:region:account-id:function:function-name:alias-name

SNS notification action:

  • arn:aws:sns:region:account-id:sns-topic-name

SSM integration actions:

  • arn:aws:ssm:region:account-id:opsitem:severity#CATEGORY=category-name

  • arn:aws:ssm-incidents::account-id:responseplan/response-plan-name

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it_insufficientdataactions TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTRESOURCELIST_W=>TT_RESOURCELIST TT_RESOURCELIST

The actions to execute when this alarm transitions to the INSUFFICIENT_DATA state from any other state. Each action is specified as an Amazon Resource Name (ARN). Valid values:

EC2 actions:

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:stop

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:terminate

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:reboot

  • arn:aws:automate:region:ec2:recover

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Stop/1.0

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Terminate/1.0

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Reboot/1.0

  • arn:aws:swf:region:account-id:action/actions/AWS_EC2.InstanceId.Recover/1.0

Autoscaling action:

  • arn:aws:autoscaling:region:account-id:scalingPolicy:policy-id:autoScalingGroupName/group-friendly-name:policyName/policy-friendly-name

Lambda actions:

  • Invoke the latest version of a Lambda function: arn:aws:lambda:region:account-id:function:function-name

  • Invoke a specific version of a Lambda function: arn:aws:lambda:region:account-id:function:function-name:version-number

  • Invoke a function by using an alias Lambda function: arn:aws:lambda:region:account-id:function:function-name:alias-name

SNS notification action:

  • arn:aws:sns:region:account-id:sns-topic-name

SSM integration actions:

  • arn:aws:ssm:region:account-id:opsitem:severity#CATEGORY=category-name

  • arn:aws:ssm-incidents::account-id:responseplan/response-plan-name

iv_metricname TYPE /AWS1/CWTMETRICNAME /AWS1/CWTMETRICNAME

The name for the metric associated with the alarm. For each PutMetricAlarm operation, you must specify either MetricName, a Metrics array, or an EvaluationCriteria.

If you are creating an alarm based on a math expression, you cannot specify this parameter, or any of the Namespace, Dimensions, Period, Unit, Statistic, or ExtendedStatistic parameters. Instead, you specify all this information in the Metrics array.

iv_namespace TYPE /AWS1/CWTNAMESPACE /AWS1/CWTNAMESPACE

The namespace for the metric associated specified in MetricName.

iv_statistic TYPE /AWS1/CWTSTATISTIC /AWS1/CWTSTATISTIC

The statistic for the metric specified in MetricName, other than percentile. For percentile statistics, use ExtendedStatistic. When you call PutMetricAlarm and specify a MetricName, you must specify either Statistic or ExtendedStatistic, but not both.

iv_extendedstatistic TYPE /AWS1/CWTEXTENDEDSTATISTIC /AWS1/CWTEXTENDEDSTATISTIC

The extended statistic for the metric specified in MetricName. When you call PutMetricAlarm and specify a MetricName, you must specify either Statistic or ExtendedStatistic but not both.

If you specify ExtendedStatistic, the following are valid values:

  • p90

  • tm90

  • tc90

  • ts90

  • wm90

  • IQM

  • PR(n:m) where n and m are values of the metric

  • TC(X%:X%) where X is between 10 and 90 inclusive.

  • TM(X%:X%) where X is between 10 and 90 inclusive.

  • TS(X%:X%) where X is between 10 and 90 inclusive.

  • WM(X%:X%) where X is between 10 and 90 inclusive.

For more information about these extended statistics, see CloudWatch statistics definitions.

it_dimensions TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTDIMENSION=>TT_DIMENSIONS TT_DIMENSIONS

The dimensions for the metric specified in MetricName.

iv_period TYPE /AWS1/CWTPERIOD /AWS1/CWTPERIOD

The length, in seconds, used each time the metric specified in MetricName is evaluated. Valid values are 10, 20, 30, and any multiple of 60.

Period is required for alarms based on static thresholds. If you are creating an alarm based on a metric math expression, you specify the period for each metric within the objects in the Metrics array.

Be sure to specify 10, 20, or 30 only for metrics that are stored by a PutMetricData call with a StorageResolution of 1. If you specify a period of 10, 20, or 30 for a metric that does not have sub-minute resolution, the alarm still attempts to gather data at the period rate that you specify. In this case, it does not receive data for the attempts that do not correspond to a one-minute data resolution, and the alarm might often lapse into INSUFFICENT_DATA status. Specifying 10, 20, or 30 also sets this alarm as a high-resolution alarm, which has a higher charge than other alarms. For more information about pricing, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing.

An alarm's total current evaluation period can be no longer than seven days, so Period multiplied by EvaluationPeriods can't be more than 604,800 seconds. For alarms with a period of less than one hour (3,600 seconds), the total evaluation period can't be longer than one day (86,400 seconds).

iv_unit TYPE /AWS1/CWTSTANDARDUNIT /AWS1/CWTSTANDARDUNIT

The unit of measure for the statistic. For example, the units for the Amazon EC2 NetworkIn metric are Bytes because NetworkIn tracks the number of bytes that an instance receives on all network interfaces. You can also specify a unit when you create a custom metric. Units help provide conceptual meaning to your data. Metric data points that specify a unit of measure, such as Percent, are aggregated separately. If you are creating an alarm based on a metric math expression, you can specify the unit for each metric (if needed) within the objects in the Metrics array.

If you don't specify Unit, CloudWatch retrieves all unit types that have been published for the metric and attempts to evaluate the alarm. Usually, metrics are published with only one unit, so the alarm works as intended.

However, if the metric is published with multiple types of units and you don't specify a unit, the alarm's behavior is not defined and it behaves unpredictably.

We recommend omitting Unit so that you don't inadvertently specify an incorrect unit that is not published for this metric. Doing so causes the alarm to be stuck in the INSUFFICIENT DATA state.

iv_evaluationperiods TYPE /AWS1/CWTEVALUATIONPERIODS /AWS1/CWTEVALUATIONPERIODS

The number of periods over which data is compared to the specified threshold. If you are setting an alarm that requires that a number of consecutive data points be breaching to trigger the alarm, this value specifies that number. If you are setting an "M out of N" alarm, this value is the N.

iv_datapointstoalarm TYPE /AWS1/CWTDATAPOINTSTOALARM /AWS1/CWTDATAPOINTSTOALARM

The number of data points that must be breaching to trigger the alarm. This is used only if you are setting an "M out of N" alarm. In that case, this value is the M. For more information, see Evaluating an Alarm in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

iv_threshold TYPE /AWS1/RT_DOUBLE_AS_STRING /AWS1/RT_DOUBLE_AS_STRING

The value against which the specified statistic is compared.

This parameter is required for alarms based on static thresholds, but should not be used for alarms based on anomaly detection models.

iv_comparisonoperator TYPE /AWS1/CWTCOMPARISONOPERATOR /AWS1/CWTCOMPARISONOPERATOR

The arithmetic operation to use when comparing the specified statistic and threshold. The specified statistic value is used as the first operand.

The values LessThanLowerOrGreaterThanUpperThreshold, LessThanLowerThreshold, and GreaterThanUpperThreshold are used only for alarms based on anomaly detection models.

iv_treatmissingdata TYPE /AWS1/CWTTREATMISSINGDATA /AWS1/CWTTREATMISSINGDATA

Sets how this alarm is to handle missing data points. If TreatMissingData is omitted, the default behavior of missing is used. For more information, see Configuring How CloudWatch Alarms Treats Missing Data.

Valid Values: breaching | notBreaching | ignore | missing

Alarms that evaluate metrics in the AWS/DynamoDB namespace always ignore missing data even if you choose a different option for TreatMissingData. When an AWS/DynamoDB metric has missing data, alarms that evaluate that metric remain in their current state.

This parameter is not applicable to PromQL alarms.

iv_evaluatelowsamplectperc00 TYPE /AWS1/CWTEVALUATELOWSAMPLECT00 /AWS1/CWTEVALUATELOWSAMPLECT00

Used only for alarms based on percentiles. If you specify ignore, the alarm state does not change during periods with too few data points to be statistically significant. If you specify evaluate or omit this parameter, the alarm is always evaluated and possibly changes state no matter how many data points are available. For more information, see Percentile-Based CloudWatch Alarms and Low Data Samples.

Valid Values: evaluate | ignore

it_metrics TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTMETRICDATAQUERY=>TT_METRICDATAQUERIES TT_METRICDATAQUERIES

An array of MetricDataQuery structures that enable you to create an alarm based on the result of a metric math expression. For each PutMetricAlarm operation, you must specify either MetricName, a Metrics array, or an EvaluationCriteria.

Each item in the Metrics array either retrieves a metric or performs a math expression.

One item in the Metrics array is the expression that the alarm watches. You designate this expression by setting ReturnData to true for this object in the array. For more information, see MetricDataQuery.

If you use the Metrics parameter, you cannot include the Namespace, MetricName, Dimensions, Period, Unit, Statistic, or ExtendedStatistic parameters of PutMetricAlarm in the same operation. Instead, you retrieve the metrics you are using in your math expression as part of the Metrics array.

it_tags TYPE /AWS1/CL_CWTTAG=>TT_TAGLIST TT_TAGLIST

A list of key-value pairs to associate with the alarm. You can associate as many as 50 tags with an alarm. To be able to associate tags with the alarm when you create the alarm, you must have the cloudwatch:TagResource permission.

Tags can help you organize and categorize your resources. You can also use them to scope user permissions by granting a user permission to access or change only resources with certain tag values.

If you are using this operation to update an existing alarm, any tags you specify in this parameter are ignored. To change the tags of an existing alarm, use TagResource or UntagResource.

To use this field to set tags for an alarm when you create it, you must be signed on with both the cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm and cloudwatch:TagResource permissions.

iv_thresholdmetricid TYPE /AWS1/CWTMETRICID /AWS1/CWTMETRICID

If this is an alarm based on an anomaly detection model, make this value match the ID of the ANOMALY_DETECTION_BAND function.

For an example of how to use this parameter, see the Anomaly Detection Model Alarm example on this page.

If your alarm uses this parameter, it cannot have Auto Scaling actions.

io_evaluationcriteria TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_CWTEVALUATIONCRITERIA /AWS1/CL_CWTEVALUATIONCRITERIA

The evaluation criteria for the alarm. For each PutMetricAlarm operation, you must specify either MetricName, a Metrics array, or an EvaluationCriteria.

If you use the EvaluationCriteria parameter, you cannot include the Namespace, MetricName, Dimensions, Period, Unit, Statistic, ExtendedStatistic, Metrics, Threshold, ComparisonOperator, ThresholdMetricId, EvaluationPeriods, or DatapointsToAlarm parameters of PutMetricAlarm in the same operation. Instead, all evaluation parameters are defined within this structure.

For an example of how to use this parameter, see the PromQL alarm example on this page.

iv_evaluationinterval TYPE /AWS1/CWTEVALUATIONINTERVAL /AWS1/CWTEVALUATIONINTERVAL

The frequency, in seconds, at which the alarm is evaluated. Valid values are 10, 20, 30, and any multiple of 60.

This parameter is required for alarms that use EvaluationCriteria, and cannot be specified for alarms configured with MetricName or Metrics.

Examples

Syntax Example

This is an example of the syntax for calling the method. It includes every possible argument and initializes every possible value. The data provided is not necessarily semantically accurate (for example the value "string" may be provided for something that is intended to be an instance ID, or in some cases two arguments may be mutually exclusive). The syntax shows the ABAP syntax for creating the various data structures.

lo_client->putmetricalarm(
  io_evaluationcriteria = new /aws1/cl_cwtevaluationcriteria(
    io_promqlcriteria = new /aws1/cl_cwtalarmpromqlcrit(
      iv_pendingperiod = 123
      iv_query = |string|
      iv_recoveryperiod = 123
    )
  )
  it_alarmactions = VALUE /aws1/cl_cwtresourcelist_w=>tt_resourcelist(
    ( new /aws1/cl_cwtresourcelist_w( |string| ) )
  )
  it_dimensions = VALUE /aws1/cl_cwtdimension=>tt_dimensions(
    (
      new /aws1/cl_cwtdimension(
        iv_name = |string|
        iv_value = |string|
      )
    )
  )
  it_insufficientdataactions = VALUE /aws1/cl_cwtresourcelist_w=>tt_resourcelist(
    ( new /aws1/cl_cwtresourcelist_w( |string| ) )
  )
  it_metrics = VALUE /aws1/cl_cwtmetricdataquery=>tt_metricdataqueries(
    (
      new /aws1/cl_cwtmetricdataquery(
        io_metricstat = new /aws1/cl_cwtmetricstat(
          io_metric = new /aws1/cl_cwtmetric(
            it_dimensions = VALUE /aws1/cl_cwtdimension=>tt_dimensions(
              (
                new /aws1/cl_cwtdimension(
                  iv_name = |string|
                  iv_value = |string|
                )
              )
            )
            iv_metricname = |string|
            iv_namespace = |string|
          )
          iv_period = 123
          iv_stat = |string|
          iv_unit = |string|
        )
        iv_accountid = |string|
        iv_expression = |string|
        iv_id = |string|
        iv_label = |string|
        iv_period = 123
        iv_returndata = ABAP_TRUE
      )
    )
  )
  it_okactions = VALUE /aws1/cl_cwtresourcelist_w=>tt_resourcelist(
    ( new /aws1/cl_cwtresourcelist_w( |string| ) )
  )
  it_tags = VALUE /aws1/cl_cwttag=>tt_taglist(
    (
      new /aws1/cl_cwttag(
        iv_key = |string|
        iv_value = |string|
      )
    )
  )
  iv_actionsenabled = ABAP_TRUE
  iv_alarmdescription = |string|
  iv_alarmname = |string|
  iv_comparisonoperator = |string|
  iv_datapointstoalarm = 123
  iv_evaluatelowsamplectperc00 = |string|
  iv_evaluationinterval = 123
  iv_evaluationperiods = 123
  iv_extendedstatistic = |string|
  iv_metricname = |string|
  iv_namespace = |string|
  iv_period = 123
  iv_statistic = |string|
  iv_threshold = |0.1|
  iv_thresholdmetricid = |string|
  iv_treatmissingdata = |string|
  iv_unit = |string|
).