Manage Alerts
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Overview
Ops Manager issues alerts for the database and server conditions configured in your alert settings. When a condition triggers an alert, you receive the alert at regular intervals until the alert resolves or Ops Manager cancels it. You should fix the immediate problem, implement a long-term solution, and view metrics to monitor your progress.
View Alerts
You can view all alerts, alert settings, and deleted alerts on the Organization Alerts page. To learn more, see Alerts Workflow.
You can view open alerts, closed alerts, and alert settings on the Project Alerts page. MongoDB Atlas sends notifications for all alerts that appear on the Open tab. To learn more, see Alerts Workflow.
Navigate to the Alerts page for your project.
If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar, or click Alerts in the sidebar.
View All Activity
Filter the activity feed.
You can filter the organization activity feed by event type and time range. You can combine filtering methods together for greater control over the activity feed output.
- Filter by event
Select the event categories or specific events you want to see from the activity feed. To exclude specific categories or events from the activity feed, click Select all categories and events, then deselect the categories and events you want to exclude.
You can filter events based on the following categories:
CategoryDescriptionAccess
Events related to Ops Manager users.
Alerts
Events related to alert configuration and monitoring.
Billing
Events related to payments and payment methods.
Others
Miscellaneous events, including log retrieval and mLab events.
Organization
Events related to your Ops Manager organization.
Projects
Events related to Ops Manager projects.
- Filter by time range
- Select a Start Date and End Date to view events from within a specified time range. Once you have configured a time range, click Apply Dates to update the activity feed with the specified range.
Navigate to the Activity Feed page for your project.
If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Project Activity Feed icon in the navigation bar, or click Activity Feed in the sidebar.
Filter the activity feed.
You can filter the project activity feed by event type, cluster, and time range. You can combine filtering methods together for greater control over the activity feed output.
- Filter by event
Select the event categories or specific events you want to see from the activity feed. To exclude specific categories or events from the activity feed, click Select all categories and events, then deselect the categories and events you want to exclude.
You can filter events based on the following categories:
CategoryDescriptionAccess
Events related to Ops Manager users.
Alerts
Events related to alert configuration and monitoring.
Billing
Events related to payments and payment methods.
Others
Miscellaneous events, including log retrieval and mLab events.
Organization
Events related to your Ops Manager organization.
Projects
Events related to Ops Manager projects.
- Filter by time range
- Select a Start Date and End Date to view events from within a specified time range. Once you have configured a time range, click Apply Dates to update the activity feed with the specified range.
Retrieve the Activity Feed
You can retrieve events for a specified organization or project using the Events API resource.
Acknowledge an Alert
When you acknowledge the alert, Ops Manager sends no further notifications to the alert's distribution list until the acknowledgment period has passed or until you resolve the alert. The distribution list receives no notification of the acknowledgment.
If the alert condition ends during the acknowledgment period, Ops Manager sends a notification of the resolution.
If you configure an alert with PagerDuty, a third-party incident management service, you can only acknowledge the alert on your PagerDuty dashboard.
Acknowledge alerts
To acknowledge a single alert, on the line item for the alert, click Acknowledge.
To acknowledge multiple, but not all, alerts:
Check the checkbox to the left of each alert to acknowledge.
Click Mark Acknowledge above the table.
To acknowledge all alerts:
Select the checkbox in the table header to select every alert.
Click Mark Acknowledge above the table.
Optional: If all Alerts were checked, select All Visible or All Open Alerts.
If all alerts are checked, then another set of radio buttons appear:
Click Acknowledge all visible checked alerts to acknowledge all alerts that were loaded onto the page.
Click Acknowledge all open alerts to acknowledge all alerts: checked, unchecked, visible and not visible on the current page.
Navigate to the Open Alerts tab.
If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar, or click Alerts in the sidebar.
If it is not already displayed, click the Open Alerts tab.
Acknowledge alerts
To acknowledge a single alert, on the line item for the alert, click Acknowledge.
To acknowledge multiple, but not all, alerts:
Check the checkbox to the left of each alert to acknowledge.
Click Mark Acknowledge above the table.
To acknowledge all alerts:
Select the checkbox in the table header to select every alert.
Click Mark Acknowledge above the table.
Optional: If all Alerts were checked, select All Visible or All Open Alerts.
If all alerts are checked, then another set of radio buttons appear:
Click Acknowledge all visible checked alerts to acknowledge all alerts that were loaded onto the page.
Click Acknowledge all open alerts to acknowledge all alerts: checked, unchecked, visible and not visible on the current page.
Unacknowledge an Alert
You can undo an acknowledgment and again receive notifications if the alert condition still applies.
Navigate to the Open Alerts tab.
If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar, or click Alerts in the sidebar.
If it is not already displayed, click the Open Alerts tab.
Disable Alerts for a Specific Process
You can turn off alerts for a given process. This might be useful, for example, if you want to temporarily disable the process but do not want it hidden from monitoring. Use the following procedure both to turn alerts off or on.
Navigate to the Clusters view for your deployment.
If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
If it is not already displayed, click Deployment in the sidebar.
Click the Clusters view.
Suspend Alerts by Adding a Maintenance Window
Specify maintenance windows to temporarily turn off alert notifications for a given resource while you perform maintenance.
To view maintenance windows:
Navigate to the Alert Settings tab.
If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar, or click Alerts in the sidebar.
Click the Alert Settings tab.
Add or Edit a Maintenance Window
Navigate to the Alert Settings tab.
If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar, or click Alerts in the sidebar.
Click the Alert Settings tab.
Select the target components for which to suspend alerts.
Note that selecting the Host target selects both HOST
and HOST_METRIC
alert configurations returned through the
alertConfigs endpoint.
Delete a Maintenance Window
Navigate to the Alert Settings tab.
If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar, or click Alerts in the sidebar.
Click the Alert Settings tab.