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Monitors

Sumo Logic Monitors allow you to set robust and configurable alerting policies that enable you to get notified about critical changes or issues affecting your production application.

In this section, we'll introduce the following concepts:

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Overview

Set up monitors to continuously query your logs or metrics and send notifications when specific events occur.

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Create a New Monitor

Learn how to create a monitor.

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Monitor Settings

Learn how to view, create, manage, and organize Monitors.

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Monitors FAQ

This topic lists the common FAQs regarding Monitors.

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Alert Variables

Use Alert Variables as parameters to customize the JSON payload object of your alert notifications.

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Alert Response

Get contextual insights about triggered alerts to minimize the time needed to investigate and resolve application failures.

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Alert Response FAQ

This topic lists the common FAQs regarding Alert Response.

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Alert Grouping

Customize how your alerts are generated from monitors by specifying a grouping condition based on specific fields.

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Muting Schedules

Pause alert notifications from monitors according to the schedule that you define.

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Monitor Log Ingestion and Alerts

Add Scheduled Searches that monitor log ingestion and send alerts.

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Automated Playbooks in Monitors

Learn how to use Automation Service playbooks with monitors.

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