» azurerm_monitor_metric_alert

Manages a Metric Alert within Azure Monitor.

» Example Usage

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "main" {
  name     = "example-resources"
  location = "West US"
}

resource "azurerm_storage_account" "to_monitor" {
  name                     = "examplestorageaccount"
  resource_group_name      = "${azurerm_resource_group.main.name}"
  location                 = "${azurerm_resource_group.main.location}"
  account_tier             = "Standard"
  account_replication_type = "LRS"
}

resource "azurerm_monitor_action_group" "main" {
  name                = "example-actiongroup"
  resource_group_name = "${azurerm_resource_group.main.name}"
  short_name          = "exampleact"

  webhook_receiver {
    name        = "callmyapi"
    service_uri = "http://example.com/alert"
  }
}

resource "azurerm_monitor_metric_alert" "test" {
  name                = "example-metricalert"
  resource_group_name = "${azurerm_resource_group.main.name}"
  scopes              = ["${azurerm_storage_account.to_monitor.id}"]
  description         = "Action will be triggered when Transactions count is greater than 50."

  criteria {
    metric_namespace = "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts"
    metric_name      = "Transactions"
    aggregation      = "Total"
    operator         = "GreaterThan"
    threshold        = 50

    dimension {
      name     = "ApiName"
      operator = "Include"
      values   = ["*"]
    }
  }

  action {
    action_group_id = "${azurerm_monitor_action_group.main.id}"
  }
}

» Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

  • name - (Required) The name of the Metric Alert. Changing this forces a new resource to be created.
  • resource_group_name - (Required) The name of the resource group in which to create the Metric Alert instance.
  • scopes - (Required) The resource ID at which the metric criteria should be applied.
  • criteria - (Required) One or more criteria blocks as defined below.
  • action - (Optional) One or more action blocks as defined below.
  • enabled - (Optional) Should this Metric Alert be enabled? Defaults to true.
  • auto_mitigate - (Optional) Should the alerts in this Metric Alert be auto resolved? Defaults to false.
  • description - (Optional) The description of this Metric Alert.
  • frequency - (Optional) The evaluation frequency of this Metric Alert, represented in ISO 8601 duration format. Possible values are PT1M, PT5M, PT15M, PT30M and PT1H. Defaults to PT1M.
  • severity - (Optional) The severity of this Metric Alert. Possible values are 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Defaults to 3.
  • window_size - (Optional) The period of time that is used to monitor alert activity, represented in ISO 8601 duration format. This value must be greater than frequency. Possible values are PT1M, PT5M, PT15M, PT30M, PT1H, PT6H, PT12H and P1D. Defaults to PT5M.
  • tags - (Optional) A mapping of tags to assign to the resource.

An action block supports the following:


A criteria block supports the following:

  • metric_namespace - (Required) One of the metric namespaces to be monitored.
  • metric_name - (Required) One of the metric names to be monitored.
  • aggregation - (Required) The statistic that runs over the metric values. Possible values are Average, Count, Minimum, Maximum and Total.
  • operator - (Required) The criteria operator. Possible values are Equals, NotEquals, GreaterThan, GreaterThanOrEqual, LessThan and LessThanOrEqual.
  • threshold - (Required) The criteria threshold value that activates the alert.
  • dimension - (Optional) One or more dimension blocks as defined below.

A dimension block supports the following:

  • name - (Required) One of the dimension names.
  • operator - (Required) The dimension operator. Possible values are Include and Exclude.
  • values - (Required) The list of dimension values.

» Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

  • id - The ID of the metric alert.

» Import

Metric Alerts can be imported using the resource id, e.g.

terraform import azurerm_monitor_metric_alert.main /subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/example-resources/providers/microsoft.insights/metricalerts/example-metricalert