# Create and view alarms
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From the **Alarms** tab on your endpoint details page, you can view and create simple static threshold metric alarms, where you specify a threshold value for a metric. If the metric breaches the threshold value, the alarm goes into the `ALARM` state. For more information about CloudWatch alarms, see [Using Amazon CloudWatch alarms](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AlarmThatSendsEmail.html).

In the **Endpoint summary** section, you can view the **Alarms** field, which tells you how many alarms are currently active on your endpoint.

To view which alarms are in the `ALARM` state, choose the **Alarms** tab. The **Alarms** tab shows you a full list of your endpoint alarms, along with details about their status and conditions. The following screenshot shows a list of alarms in this section that have been configured for an endpoint.

![Screenshot of the alarms tab on the endpoint details page which shows a list of CloudWatch alarms.](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/images/hosting-alarms-tab.png)


An alarm’s status can be `In alarm`, `OK`, or `Insufficient data` if there isn’t enough metrics data being collected.

To create a new alarm for your endpoint, do the following:

1. In the **Alarms** tab, choose **Create alarm**.

1. The **Create alarm** page opens. For **Alarm name**, enter a name for the alarm.

1. (Optional) Enter a description for the alarm.

1. For **Metric**, choose the CloudWatch metric that you want the alarm to track.

1. For **Variant name**, choose the endpoint model variant that you want to monitor.

1. For **Statistic**, choose one of the available statistics for the metric you selected.

1. For **Period**, choose the time period to use for calculating each statistical value. For example, if you choose the Average statistic and a 5 minute period, each data point monitored by the alarm is the average of the metric’s data points at 5 minute intervals.

1. For** Evaluation periods**, enter the number of data points that you want the alarm to consider when evaluating whether to enter the alarm state or not.

1. For **Condition**, choose the conditional that you want to use for your alarm threshold.

1. For **Threshold value**, enter the desired value for your threshold.

1. (Optional) For **Notification**, you can choose **Add notification** to create or specify an Amazon SNS topic that receives a notification when your alarm state changes.

1. Choose **Create alarm**.

After creating your alarm, you can return to the **Alarms** tab to view its status at any time. From this section, you can also select the alarm and either **Edit** or **Delete** it.