Use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring service alarms feature to passively monitor your protected databases resources and notify you when metrics meet alarm-specified triggers.

From each metric displayed in the Protected database details page, you can set an alarm and be notified when a condition is met. For example, you can create an alarm to notify you when the space used for recovery window is more than 70%, or when the protected database health status changes to 1 (warning).

To set an alarm from the Protected database details page

1. On the Protected database list page, select the protected databases that you want to work with. See Listing Protected Databases for details to access the list page.
2. On the details page, select the Monitoring tab and go to the Metrics section.
3. Select the Actions menu in the upper-right corner of the chart and select Create an alarm on this query.

   The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring service Create Alarm page is displayed.

4. Specify the alarm settings. For detailed instructions to create an alarm, see Managing Alarms.

To set an alarm from the Alarm Definitions page of the Monitoring service

1. Open the navigation menu and select Observability & Management. Under Monitoring, select Alarm Definitions.
2. Select Create Alarm.
3. Specify the alarm settings. In the Metric description section, select the oci_recovery_service namespace. In the Metric name field, and select any one of the metrics emitted by the oci_recovery_service namespace. For detailed instructions to create an alarm, see Managing Alarms.