| Parameter | Description |
| Active | If checked, the rule is enabled and will be processed |
| Performance metric | The metric to monitor |
| Threshold | The maximum value for the selected metric |
| Severity | Defines the severity of the alert generated (unless multi threshold syntax is used) |
| Auto clear | If set, the monitor will CLEAR any previous alarm if the conditions of those alarms are not true anymore |
| Alarm tag | You can define some text to use as a prefix of the alarm message generated by the current rule |
| Alarm | Defines if an alarm has to be generated for the given rule |
| Metric | Defines if a metric has to be generated for the given rule |