Custom threshold rule

Custom threshold rule is GA since 8.13.

Development & testing

With data forge

[!TIP] The following commands uses kbn-data-forge to generate some data for testing Custom threshold rule.

Basic command to generate host data for 7 hosts:

node x-pack/scripts/data_forge.js \
  --events-per-cycle 7 \
  --lookback now-20m \
  --install-kibana-assets \
  --dataset fake_hosts

Get help with the data forge tool: node x-pack/scripts/data_forge.js --help

Create a Custom threshold rule

• First create a data view as shown below:

• Then you can adjust the rule to alert based on CPU usage:

With synthtrace

[!TIP] The following commands uses kbn-synthtrace to generate some data for testing Custom threshold rule.

Basic command to generate APM data for 3 services:

node scripts/synthtrace simple_trace.ts --local --live

Create a Custom threshold rule

• First create a data view as shown below:

• Then you can adjust the rule to alert based on CPU usage: