Monitors

Monitors in Resource Management allow users to track usage patterns and spend activity, without needing to monitor the application itself. Subscribers to monitors will receive notifications to take action when estimated usage approaches a budget.

A monitor has a scope, a trigger, events, and subscriber(s).

• Scope: The entity to be monitored. See the Monitor scopes section below for more details.
• Trigger: The condition required to prompt the monitor.
• Event: A time when the monitor was triggered.
• Subscriber(s): The user(s) who will be notified when the monitor is triggered.

If the trigger on the scope is fulfilled, an event is created and the subscriber(s) is/are notified.

Monitor scopes

Monitors are currently designed to track budgets. In the future, they will also be equipped to track enrollments and usage accounts.

• Budgets: An event is triggered when usage exceeds a percentage of the budget. For periodic budgets, events are triggered once every period (for example, once a month for a monthly budget). If the percentage is updated, it may cause another event to trigger in the same period.

Permissions

To use monitors, one or more of the following roles are required:

• Enrollment administrator: View, create, edit, and delete monitors.
• Resource management administrator: View, create, edit, and delete monitors.
• Resource management viewer: View monitors.

Roles are granted through the Enrollment permissions page in Control Panel.

View all monitors

In Resource Management, select Monitors in the left sidebar. This will display a list of all monitors available in your enrollment. Select a single monitor to view its trend, details, and events. Regular observation can be helpful to learn how often a monitor is triggered and whether it provides useful signal.

Create a monitor

You can create a monitor in two ways:

• While viewing all monitors, select the Create button.
• While viewing the list of budgets, select the Actions button, then select Monitors. Doing so displays the list of monitors for the chosen budget. Select New monitor to create a new monitor that tracks the chosen budget.

Enter the remaining information, then select Create monitor. The following details can be specified:

• Scope: The budget that this monitor will be tracking.
• Name: The name of this monitor.
• Threshold: The percentage of the budget at which the monitor will be triggered.
• Subscribers: The users who will be notified when the monitor is triggered.

Delete a monitor

While viewing a single monitor, select the Delete button. When the warning dialog appears, select Confirm.