| Parameter | Description |
| Active | To enable/disable a rule |
| Category | A filter on the category of error |
| Threshold | The maximum number of errors |
| Severity | The severity of the alert sent if a threshold is breached. |
| Period | The time period to look for errors, in minutes |
| Auto clear | If checked, the alarm will be cleared as soon as the alarm condition is not met anymore |
| Alarm tag | This field allows to add custom text within the alarm message. %MSG% variable will containthe actual generated message and can be used such as: “my_prefix %MSG% my_suffix”. By default, tagwill be used as prefix. |
| Alarm | To enable alarm sending |
| Metric | To enable metric sending |
| Report | If checked, this line of surveillance will used for showing threshold and severity in the daily report, in case that is available. |