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title: Defining an Alarm Policy
slug: kron-dam-reference-guide-3-8-1/defining-an-alarm-policy
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createdAt: 2025-07-16T10:28:37.945Z
---

In the **Policy** tab, select and edit an existing policy.

Populate the header fields:

| **Fields**         | **Description**                                                      |
| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name**           | Logical identifier displayed in reports.                             |
| **Enabled**        | Activates the policy immediately.                                    |
| **Linked Sources** | Choose DAM\_ALARM or other data sources that may trigger the policy. |

:::hint{type="info"}
Move one or more targets into the **Notification Targets** pane.
:::

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Each alarm policy includes one or more rules that define the triggering conditions. When an event matches all rule criteria, an alarm is raised at the designated severity.

- **Alarm Level**
  Specifies the severity of the alarm when triggered. Supported levels: INFO, MINOR, MAJOR, CRITICAL.
- **Repeats Before Trigger**
  Defines how many identical events must occur before the alarm is issued. Useful for suppressing transient issues.
- **Max Repeat Count**
  Limits the number of times an alarm can be raised for the same condition. After this threshold, no additional alerts are generated.
- **Watched Metric / Operator / Value**
  This triplet defines the core condition. For example:
  masked: BOOLEAN **IS** true
  A match here is what activates the rule logic.
- **Combinator to Next**
  When multiple conditions are defined, this field specifies how they are evaluated together, using logical AND or OR.

```yaml
Watched Metric : masked : BOOLEAN
Operator       : IS
Value          : true
Alarm Level    : CRITICAL
Repeats Before : 1
Max Repeat     : 10
```


When a query returns masked data, the rule above triggers a **CRITICAL** alarm, increments **Repeat Count**, and stops issuing new notifications after ten occurrences.

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![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/g9cApVza9NIhSh0pjZYtA/R6xJX_RJPBhDNahUcV0Ge_image.png "Alarm Detail in History Tab")