Technical reference

Learn more about alarms and alerts and check types flows and resources, and find other resources that you can use to configure and interact with the Rackspace Monitoring API.

• Alert Triggering and Alarms
  • Alert work flow
  • Alarm language
  • Alert policies
  • Constructs with function modifiers
  • Best practices for creating alerts
• Check types
  • Remote check types
  • Agent check types
  • Hostinfo checks
  • Check status codes
• Client libraries and tools
  • Ruby - rackspace-monitoring Library
  • Integration resource: Rackspace Monitoring Cookbook
• Agent configuration
  • Agent plugin check
  • CPU check with alarm
  • Filesystem check; alarm
  • Load average check; no alarm
  • Memory check; alarm
  • MySQL check; alarm
  • Network check; no alarms