Notifiers

This section introduces notifiers and explains how you can use them to generate automated alerts from your event data.

A monitor is a background task that periodically runs a query that you define. For example, it counts the number of error messages in your logs over the previous 5 minutes. A notifier defines how Axiom notifies you about the monitor output. For example, Axiom can send you an email.

By adding a notifier to a monitor, you receive a notification with the following message:

• When a match monitor matches an event, the message contains the full event if you created the monitor using the simple query builder, or the output of the APL query if you created the monitor using APL.
• When a threshold monitor changes state, the message includes a relevant value from the query results. If you enable Notify by group, the notification message also contains the relevant group value.

Choose one of the following to learn more about a type of notifier: