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Configure EvaluationPeriods on queue alarms

Open AnthonySteele opened this issue 9 years ago • 2 comments

There can be transient spikes in the "AgeOfOldestMessage" metrics, due to a momentary fault with an upstream dependency. For many queues, this should not cause an alarm.

if they can set the "EvaluationPeriods" to 2, then

  • this problem goes away but
  • it will take longer to get a genuine alarm (2 periods is 10 minutes)

Should the EvaluationPeriods be increased for all queues or for 1 queue at a time? For both queue alarm types or individually?

AnthonySteele avatar Jan 25 '17 09:01 AnthonySteele

We might be able to use percentile statistics e.g. the p95 soon.

AnthonySteele avatar Jan 27 '17 11:01 AnthonySteele

You can already do this for the newer alarm types, so suggest we leave this and move sqs over as well.

tomhaigh avatar Mar 07 '18 11:03 tomhaigh