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Event Policies

The Spot console provides a robust and flexible tool for configuring and managing notifications. Spot uses a system of user-definable policies, providing granular management of event notifications and customization to fit different business cases. You can customize notification policies by:

  • Resources monitored
  • Events to be notified
  • Notification mediums such as Slack, email, and SNS
  • Users and stakeholders to be notified

You can create policies for:

  • Compute for notifications for compute products, such as Elastigroup and Ocean resources.
  • Security for notifications for security products.

You can access event policies:

  1. In the Spot console, click the user icon user icon > Settings.
  2. Click Notification Center > Event Policies.

Event Policies Dashboard​

The Event Policies dashboard is an overview of notification policies and basic status information about each policy.

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Policy Details​

On the Policy Details page, you can:

  • Edit the policy, including the overview, resources, events, integrations, registered users (the visibility of a policy cannot be changed)
  • Register to the policy
  • Deactivate policy to stop event notifications for this policy for all users
  • Remove policy to delete it
  • Leave policy to unsubscribe from the policy and stop receiving notifications generated by this policy

Register to a Policy​

You need to register to a policy to receive notifications generated by that policy. To register, click Register to policy on an event policy to get notifications.

Create a Policy​

  1. In the Spot console, click the user icon user icon > Settings.
  2. Click Notification Center > Event Policies > Create Policy.
  3. You can create a:
    • Compute policy for notifications for compute products, such as Elastigroup and Ocean resources.
    • Security policy for notifications for security products.

Policy Permissions​

These are the privileges Spot users have for event policies:

  • Admin
    • View and edit personal policies owned by that user, cannot view or edit personal policies owned by other users
    • Edit any account policy
    • Add and remove registered users
    • Change the owner of a policy
    • Create new personal and account policies
    • Add integrations
  • Editor
    • View personal policies owned by that user and all account policies
    • Edit personal and account policies owned by that user
    • Create new personal and account policies
  • Viewer
    • View account policies that the user is registered to
    • Can register and unregister to any account policy available
    • Cannot create new policies