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Configuration

Configuration Guide

Configure DB24x7 to match your monitoring needs. Set up alerts, notification channels, performance thresholds, and manage your team.

Configuration Sections

Alert Configuration

Set up intelligent alerts for critical metrics

Performance Thresholds

Configure thresholds for performance monitoring

Notifications

Manage notification channels and preferences

Team Management

Add team members and manage permissions

Alert Configuration

Configure intelligent alerts to get notified about issues before they impact your users. DB24x7 uses machine learning to reduce alert noise.

Default Alert Types

These alerts are pre-configured with sensible defaults. You can customize thresholds for each database.

High CPU Usage

WARNING

Alert when CPU usage exceeds threshold

Default
80%

Memory Exhaustion

CRITICAL

Alert when memory usage is critically high

Default
90%

Slow Query

WARNING

Alert when queries exceed execution time

Default
1000ms

Connection Pool Full

CRITICAL

Alert when connection pool is nearly full

Default
95%

Replication Lag

WARNING

Alert when replica lag exceeds threshold

Default
30s

Disk Space Low

CRITICAL

Alert when disk space is running low

Default
85%

Configuring Alert Thresholds

Navigate to Settings → Alerts to configure thresholds:

  1. Select the database you want to configure
  2. Click on the alert type you want to customize
  3. Adjust the threshold value
  4. Set the evaluation period (how long condition must persist)
  5. Choose notification channels for this alert
  6. Save your configuration
# Example: CPU Usage AlertThreshold: 85%Evaluation Period: 5 minutesSeverity: WarningChannels: Email, Slack

Smart Alerting

DB24x7's AI learns your database patterns and automatically adjusts alert sensitivity to reduce false positives. Enable "Smart Alerts" in settings to use dynamic thresholds based on historical behavior.

Performance Thresholds

Configure performance monitoring thresholds to track query performance, resource usage, and system health.

Query Performance

  • Slow Query Threshold: 1000ms default
  • Query Timeout: 30000ms default
  • Lock Wait Threshold: 5000ms

Resource Limits

  • CPU Warning: 80% usage
  • Memory Warning: 85% usage
  • Disk Warning: 80% usage

Replication

  • Lag Warning: 30 seconds
  • Lag Critical: 60 seconds
  • Replica Down: Immediate alert

Connections

  • Pool Usage: 90% warning
  • Connection Errors: Track failed attempts
  • Idle Connections: Monitor unused

Customizing Thresholds

Navigate to Settings → Performance Thresholds and configure each metric:

# Example Configurationslow_query_threshold: 2000 # millisecondscpu_warning_threshold: 75 # percentagememory_critical_threshold: 95 # percentagereplication_lag_warning: 45 # seconds

Notification Channels

Configure multiple notification channels to ensure your team is alerted through their preferred method.

Email

Receive alerts via email

Setup: Configure SMTP settings or use default email service

Slack

Send alerts to Slack channels

Setup: Connect your Slack workspace and select channels

SMS

Get critical alerts via SMS

Setup: Add phone numbers and configure SMS provider

PagerDuty

Integrate with PagerDuty for on-call

Setup: Connect PagerDuty account with API key

Webhooks

Send alerts to custom endpoints

Setup: Configure webhook URLs and payload format

Notification Preferences

  • Alert Grouping: Group similar alerts within 5-minute windows to reduce noise
  • Quiet Hours: Suppress non-critical alerts during specified hours
  • Escalation: Auto-escalate unacknowledged critical alerts after 15 minutes
  • Recovery Notifications: Get notified when issues are automatically resolved

Team Management

Add team members, manage roles, and control access to your database monitoring.

Adding Team Members

  1. Navigate to Settings → Team
  2. Click "Invite Team Member"
  3. Enter email address and select role
  4. Choose which databases they can access
  5. Send invitation

Team Roles & Permissions

Admin

  • Full access to all features
  • Manage team members and roles
  • Configure billing and subscription
  • Delete databases and data

Developer

  • View all monitoring data
  • Configure alerts and thresholds
  • Execute query optimization
  • View and export reports

Viewer

  • View monitoring dashboards
  • View alerts and incidents
  • View reports (read-only)
  • No configuration changes

Best Practices

  • • Use the principle of least privilege - assign minimum required permissions
  • • Regularly review team member access and remove inactive users
  • • Use separate accounts for automation and integrations
  • • Enable two-factor authentication for all admin users

Next Steps

Auto-Healing Rules

Set up automated issue resolution and self-healing

Slack Integration

Connect DB24x7 with your Slack workspace

AI DBA Assistant

Learn about AI-powered features and optimization