Edit Monitor Settings and View Activity
The Monitors page (Manage Data > Monitoring > Monitors) allows you to view, create, manage, and organize your Monitors. 
The page displays the following information:
- Name. Name of the Monitor.
- Status. A Monitor is considered Normal when none of the trigger conditions are met and your data is actively being monitored.
- Type. A Monitor type is either Logs or Metrics, based on the type of data being monitored.
- Query. The query the Monitor is running to track your data.
- Created By. The user that created the Monitor.
- Last Modified. The time the Monitor was last updated.
- Capacity Used. The bottom of the table shows the number of Log and Metric Monitors in your account.
To quickly open the Alert List to view all of the triggered alerts from a Monitor, hover your cursor over its Status and click the icon.
At the top of the page, you can:
- Search Monitors. Use the search field to filter Monitors by name and status. For example, you can view all Monitors that are currently triggered in the system by clicking the Status: All Triggered.
- Click Add to:
- create folders for organizing your Monitors.
- create a new Monitor.
- import Monitors from the exported JSON you copied from the More Actions menu in the Details pane of the original monitor.
The Import function is provided for you to transfer data immediately. The Sumo Logic JSON format may change without notice. There is no guarantee that you will be able to import the JSON in the future.
Quick menu
The quick menu allows you to make changes to the Monitor without opening the Details pane. Find and hover your mouse over a Monitor in the Monitors table. A three-dot icon appears on the right of the row. Click the three-dot icon to view a menu with all of the options available in the Details pane.
Details pane
The details pane provides additional information about a selected Monitor, like its query, trigger conditions, and notification preferences. For the monitors listed, select a row to view its details. A details pane appears to the right of the table.
In the details pane, you can see the following details for a Monitor:
- Name of the Monitor.
- The status of the Monitor, either Normal, Critical, Warning, or Missing Data. A Monitor can be in multiple states at the same time.
- Description of the Monitor.
- Type of Monitor, either Logs or Metrics.
- Path is the Library location where the Monitor is stored.
- Query used to track your data.
- Trigger Conditions that are set on the Monitor. Applicable values include Critical, Warning, and Missing Data.
- Notifications configured on the Monitor.
- The timestamp and user that Created and last Modified the Monitor.
Edit, Disable, More Actions
- Edit button: Use this to make changes to the selected Monitor.
- Disable button: Puts the Monitor in a disabled state so it will not fire any notifications.
- More Actions menu:
- Disable and Enable. A Monitor that is in a disabled state will not fire any notifications.
- Copy Path. Copy the path of the Monitor to your computer clipboard.
- Duplicate. Make another Monitor based on the same settings.
- Move. Move the Monitor to a different path.
- Export. Provides JSON of the Monitor, allowing you to transfer content within Sumo Logic by copying this JSON, then pasting it into the import dialog in the Library location you choose. This JSON format may change without notice.
- Edit Permissions.
- Delete.
- Copy Link.
Monitors History
The history of alerts is available in the Monitor History tab of the details pane. This allows you to quickly see the history of all triggered alerts of the selected Monitor.
Monitors folder permissions
This section describes permissions for folders that contain Monitors. This feature is not enabled by default in all accounts. If you would like access to this feature please contact Sumo Logic Support for assistance.
Access to folders that contain Monitors is controlled by permissions. If you have the Manage Monitors role capability, you can grant one or more roles permissions to folders that you have created. If you have the Admin Monitors capability you can manage permission to all folders on the Monitors page. The permissions you can set are:
- Read. View-only access to Monitors in the folder.
- Update. Ability to edit Monitors in the folder.
- Create. Ability to create new Monitors in the folder.
- Delete. Ability to delete Monitors from the folder.
- Manage. Ability to move folders and to grant other roles permissions to the folder. If you grant this permission, the permissions listed above will be granted as well.
To set permissions for a Monitors folder:
- Go to Manage Data > Monitoring > Monitors in the Sumo Logic UI.
- Right-click on the folder whose permissions you want to set, and click Edit Permissions. This option is present only if you have been granted Manage permission for the folder.
- On the edit popup, note that the user who created the folder, and roles with the Admin Monitors capability, automatically have all permissions to the folder.
- You can make the following edits:
- You can use the checkboxes to change the permissions currently assigned to a role that was explicitly added to the folder. (You can’t change the permissions to the Administrator and Monitors Admin role.)
- You can click Add Role to add a role to the folder. You’ll be prompted with the "Your Entire Organization" option, and a list of roles. Select "Your Entire Organization" or one or more more roles, and checkmark the permissions you want to grant. If you grant access to a specific role in addition to "Your Entire Organization" users of that role will be granted the least restrictive access defined by the two permission sets.
- You can remove a role that was explicitly added to the folder. To do so, mouse over the role in the edit popup, and click the X that appears.
The permissions you set for a folder are inherited by that folder’s subfolders. When a user views permissions for such subfolders, the inherited permissions will be greyed out. It isn’t possible to deselect inherited permissions, but it is possible to add additional permissions. Inherited permissions can only be removed by removing them from the higher level folder where they were assigned.
