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Manage Project Alerts

Zilliz Cloud offers two types of alerts for resource monitoring: Organization Alerts for billing-related matters and Project Alerts for operational performance of clusters in specific projects. For a quick reference, refer to Metrics & Alerts Reference.

This topic describes how to view and manage project alerts.

📘Notes

This feature is exclusively available to clusters in the Standard and Enterprise plans. For more information, see Select the Right Cluster Plan.

Overview​

Below is a table outlining the default trigger conditions for predefined project alert targets.

When an alert in an ON status, the specified recipients will receive notifications once the conditions are met. You can edit an alert to change its status.

For more information about recommended actions, refer to Metrics & Alerts Reference.

Alert Target

Unit

Default Trigger Condition

CU Computation

%

WARNING: Trigger alerts at >70% utilized computational power for 10+ minutes.

CRITICAL: Trigger alerts at >90% utilized computational power for 10+ minutes.

CU Capacity

%

WARNING: Trigger alerts at >70% utilized CU capacity for 10+ minutes.

CRITICAL: Trigger alerts at >90% utilized CU capacity for 10+ minutes.

Search (QPS)

QPS

Trigger WARNING alerts at >50 search operations per second for 10+ minutes.

Query (QPS)

QPS

Trigger WARNING alerts at >50 query operations per second for 10+ minutes.

Search Latency (P99)

ms

Trigger WARNING alerts at P99 latency >1,000ms for 10+ minutes.

Query Latency (P99)

ms

Trigger WARNING alerts at P99 latency >1,000ms for 10+ minutes.

Permissions:

  • View: All members can view project alerts in the target organization.

  • Configuration: Only organization owners or project admins can configure cluster alerts.

  • Receiving notifications: Available to any organization member if designated by the owner.

For more information on user roles, see User Roles.

View project alerts​

Navigate to the Project Alerts page to view project alerts.

Components of an alert:

  • Alert Target: Preconfigured by Zilliz Cloud with trigger conditions and severity.

  • Status: Indicates if the alert is active (ON) or not. When an alert in an ON status, the specified recipients will receive notifications once the conditions are met.

  • Condition: Trigger conditions for the alert. For each project alert target, the trigger condition includes a threshold value and a duration value that must be met for the alert to be triggered. The condition can be set to one of the following operators: >, >=, <, <=, =. The threshold value can be a numeric value, such as a number for metrics like query latency, query QPS, search QPS, CU Capacity, and CU Computation. The duration specifies how long the threshold must be exceeded, which is set to a minimum of 1 minute and a maximum of 30 minutes.

  • Severity Level: Categorized as WARNING or CRITICAL.

  • Receiver: Designated roles or email addresses for receiving notifications. You can also set up custom notification channels using webhooks. For more information, refer to Manage Notification Channels.

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Create a project alert​

In addition to default project alerts, you can click + Alert to create an alert by customizing the alert type, severity level, alert condition, and notification recipients.

For supported custom alert targets, refer to Metrics & Alerts Reference.

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Edit a project alert​

  • Customizations: Modify alert conditions, update notification recipients, and change the active status.

  • Restrictions: Alert target type and severity level are fixed and cannot be changed.

📘Notes

To quickly enable or disable an alert, you can select Enable or Disable from the Actions column.

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Enable or disable a project alert​

To quickly enable or disable a project alert, select Enable or Disable from the Actions column.

📘Notes

Once an alert is disabled, you'll no longer receive alert notifications if alert conditions are met.

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Delete a project alert​

Once a project alert is no longer needed, you can delete it.

🚧Warning

Once an alert is deleted, you'll no longer receive notifications for the alert target.

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View alert history​

View triggered alerts on the Alert History tab, with filters for alert target, severity level, and time range.

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