- An ingestion policy is a set of accounts, groups, sources, metric namespaces, or point tags, for which you can monitor the PPS usage and set limits. Choose the Scope, for which you want to monitor the PPS usage, and click Next.
- Accounts, which can be user and service accounts. You must assign one or more existing accounts.
- Groups, which can include user and service accounts. You must assign one or more existing groups.
- Sources, which emit metrics. You can assign exact source names or names with wildcards, for example,
appServer1
andappServer*
. - Namespaces, which group metrics in a hierarchy defined by a name prefix. You can assign exact metric names and namespaces, for example,
request.
andrequests
. You can also assign names with wildcards, for example,cpuloadavg*
andcpu.*
. - Point tags, which are optional key-value pairs associated with a metric. You must assign exact tag keys with exact tag values or wildcards, for example,
env="dev"
orenv="*"
. If you assign multiple point tags, you must specify how to combine them - select either Has tags (logical operator OR) or Has all these tags (logical operator AND).
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If you Set a PPS limit per billing period for the policy, you must also configure the alert settings.
- In the Conditions panel, select the comparison operator for the alert condition, specify the threshold for at least one severity, and click Next.
- In the Recipients panel, specify who will receive the alert notifications and click Next.
- Enter the name of the alert, optionally add tags, and click Next.
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Enter the policy name and, optionally, a description and click Create.
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