How do I Set up Alerts in GoTo Resolve?
Alerts make sure that you are aware of potential issues with your devices. When an alert is triggered, admins receive an email about the issue and let the admin manage the relevant device or create a Helpdesk ticket directly from the alert.
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What alerts are available in GoTo Resolve?
- CPU usage: Use the CPU usage alert to monitor processor utilization on a device or across a group of devices. CPU usage is measured as a percentage of the total available CPU power. An alert is triggered when usage reaches the threshold and is held for the specified duration.You can define duration in minutes, hours, and days.
- Memory usage: Use the memory usage alert to monitor memory utilization on a device or across a group of devices. Memory usage is measured as a percentage of the total available memory. An alert is triggered when usage reaches the threshold and is held for the specified duration.You can define duration in minutes, hours, and days.
- Free disk space: Use the free disk space alert to monitor the space remaining on a defined disk drive on a device or across a group of devices. An alert is triggered when free disk space falls below the defined minimum as expressed in MB, GB, or as a percentage of the total size of the disk.
- Software inventory change: Use the software inventory change alert to monitor whether new software is installed or existing software is uninstalled from a device or across a group of devices. Select Include windows update installations to receive alerts whenever a Windows update is installed or uninstalled.
- Connection status: Use this alert type to monitor when a device goes offline or comes online. An alert is triggered when the connection status of the device changes and the specified duration elapses. You can define duration in seconds, minutes, hours, and days, up to 180 days.
- Custom script monitoring: Use your custom PowerShell script to receive alerts about events of your choice. Upload or write your own monitoring script, or let AI guide you through creating one. Depending on your needs, you can track numbers (such as folder size) and strings (such as file names). An alert is triggered when usage reaches the threshold and is held for the specified duration.You can define duration in minutes, hours, and days. For information about working with AI-generated scripts in GoTo Resolve, see How can Artificial Intelligence Help You Write Remote Execution Scripts?
- Windows event log: Monitor Windows events that are collected in the Event Viewer on your devices. This helps you identify events such as failed login attempts, malicious registry changes, potential malware activity, or detecting a potential brute-force activity. To set up this alert, select a Log category for your events and one of the following details:
- Event level: The severity of the event from Critical to Debug
- Event source: Indicates the software component or application that generated the event. This helps determine the root cause of the event. You can find the name of the source in the Event Viewer of a Windows device.
- Event ID: A unique identifier for each recorded event in the Windows Event log, providing information on the type or action of the event.
Note: Event ID and Event source together may provide contextual information. For example, Event ID 4624 is logged when a user successfully logs on to a Windows device. However, this event can be logged both when a user logs into a How do I Set up Alerts in GoTo Resolve?Windows computer (Event source is 'Microsoft Windows security') and when the login is performed remotely via Remote Desktop Protocol (Event source is 'Microsoft Windows TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager').
- Keyword in log message: Type a keyword that you are looking for in events
Finally, add a brief Alert description to identify this alert in GoTo Resolve later on, and set a Priority for your alert.
- Service status - Monitor the status of Windows services running on your devices. To find the name of a service, open Task Manager and go to the Services page. You have the following options to monitor Windows service status:
- Service starts: monitors when the selected service starts on the remote device.
- Service stops: monitors when the selected service stops automatically or manually on the remote device.
- Service crashes: monitors when the selected service stops unexpectedly on the remote device.
Finally, select the Priority level for your alert.