Monitor Service Level Agreement

This policy monitors a set of run-time performance conditions for an API in a Microgateway instance, and sends alerts to a specified destination when the performance conditions are violated. This policy enables you to monitor run-time performance for one or more specified applications. You can configure this policy to define a Service Level Agreement (SLA), which is a set of conditions that defines the level of performance that an application should expect from an API. You can use this policy to identify whether the API threshold rules are met or exceeded. For example, you might define an agreement with a particular application that sends an alert to the application if responses are not sent within a certain maximum response time. You can configure SLAs for each API or application combination.

Parameters like success count, fault count, and total request count are immediate monitoring parameters and the evaluation happens immediately after the limit is breached. The rest of the parameters are Aggregated monitoring parameters whose evaluation happens once the configured interval is over. If there is a breach in any of the parameters, an event notification ( Monitor event) is sent to the configured destination. In a single policy, multiple action configurations behave as AND condition. The OR condition can be achieved by configuring multiple policies.

Parameter	Value
Action Configuration. Specifies the type of action to be configured.
Name	Specifies the name of the metric to be monitored. You can have one of the available metrics: Availability. Indicates whether the API is available to the specified clients in the current interval. Average Response Time. Indicates the average time taken by the API to complete all invocations in the current interval. The average is calculated from the instant the API activation takes place for the configured interval. For example, if you set an alert for Average response time greater than 30 ms with an interval of 1 minute then on API activation, the monitoring interval starts and the average of the response time of all runtime invocations for this API in 1 minute is calculated. If this is greater than 30 ms, then a monitor event is generated. If this is configured under Monitor service level agreement policy with an option to configure applications so that application specific SLA monitoring can be done, then the monitoring for the average response time is done only for the specified application. Fault Count. Indicates the number of faults returned in the current interval. Maximum Response Time. Indicates the maximum time to respond to a request in the current interval. Minimum Response Time. Indicates the minimum time to respond to a request in the current interval. Success Count. Indicates the number of successful requests in the current interval. Total Request Count. Indicates the total number of requests (successful and unsuccessful) in the current interval.
Operator	Specifies the operator applicable to the metric selected. You can have one of the available operator: Greater Than, Less Than, Equals To.
Value	Specifies the alert value for which the monitoring is applied.
Destination	Specifies the destination where the alert is to be logged. You can have the required options: API Gateway Elasticsearch Microgateway does not support destinations other than the ones listed above.
Alert Interval	Specifies the time period (in minutes) in which to monitor performance before sending an alert if a condition is violated. The timer starts once the API is activated and resets after the configured time interval. If and API is deactivated the interval gets reset and on API activation its starts afresh.
Alert Frequency	Specifies how frequently to issue alerts for the counter-based metrics (Total Request Count, Success Count, Fault Count). You can have one of the options: Only Once. Triggers an alert only the first time one of the specified conditions is violated. Every Time. Triggers an alert every time one of the specified conditions is violated.
Alert Message	Specifies the text to be included in the alert.
Consumer Applications	Specifies the application to which this Service Level Agreement applies.