16.2. Alerts and Responses to Changing Conditions

A critical part of monitoring is being aware of when undesirable events occur. Alerting works with other functions in JBoss ON management (monitoring data and configuration drift detection) to define conditions for triggering an alert.

When an alert condition is met, alerting in JBoss ON serves two important functions:

Alerts are based on metrics information, call-time data, availability, and events, all normal monitoring elements. Alerting can also be based on critical changes to a resource, defined in drift definitions that track configuration drift. Tracking configuration for resources along with monitoring data lets administrators remedy unplanned or undesirable system changes easily and consistently.