Features & workflows
Setting up alerts
Get told when a number crosses a line — from a metric AddisDB already watches, or a query you write.
Open Alerts from the sidebar to define rules that watch a connection and fire when something crosses a threshold you set. Firing alerts are listed together, so you can see everything currently wrong in one place.
Two kinds of rule
- Metric — watch something the Live Monitor already tracks, such as connection counts, long-running queries or blocking.
- Query — write a query that returns a single number and compare it against a threshold. Anything you can express in SQL can become an alert.
How often it checks
Each rule has a check interval you can tune. Typing a value outside the allowed range snaps it to the nearest one that is permitted, so the box never shows a number that is not actually in effect.