Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Best Practices with Google

Alerting gives timely awareness to problems in your cloud applications so you can resolve the problems quickly. In Cloud Monitoring, an alerting policy describes the circumstances under which you want to be alerted and how you want to be notified. This page provides an overview of alerting policies.

Alerting policies that are used to track metric data collected by Cloud Monitoring are called metric-based alerting policies. Most of the Cloud Monitoring documentation about alerting policies assumes that you are using metric-based alerting policies.