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Policy conditions

Stackdriver alerting policies are composed of one or more conditions along with notifications and documentation. Each condition is defined as a predicate function with a metric, a monitored resource or resource group, and a rule. Stackdriver offers a few different condition types that define the type of behavior we would like to monitor. Condition types include the following:

• Metric Threshold: It triggers if the metric's value is sustained above or below the threshold for a given time
• Metric Absence: It triggers if the metric is absent for the given period
• Metric Rate of Change: True when the metric increases or decreases greater than the given rate over a given period
• Uptime Check Health: It triggers when two or more user-defined ...