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-# Use dimension templates to create dynamic alarms
-
-Your ability to monitor the health of your systems and applications relies on your ability to create and maintain
-the best set of alarms for your particular needs.
-
-In v1.18 of Netdata, we introduced **dimension templates** for alarms, which simplifies the process of writing [alarm
-entities](../../health/README.md#entities-in-the-health-files) for charts with many dimensions.
-
-Dimension templates can condense many individual entities into one—no more copy-pasting one entity and changing the
-`alarm`/`template` and `lookup` lines for each dimension you'd like to monitor.
-
-They are, however, an advanced health monitoring feature. For more basic instructions on creating your first alarm,
-check out our [health monitoring documentation](../../health/), which also includes
-[examples](../../health/README.md#examples).
-
-## The fundamentals of `foreach`
-
-Our dimension templates update creates a new `foreach` parameter to the existing [`lookup`
-line](../../health/README.md#alarm-line-lookup). This is where the magic happens.
-
-You use the `foreach` parameter to specify which dimensions you want to monitor with this single alarm. You can separate
-them with a comma (`,`) or a pipe (`|`). You can also use a [Netdata simple pattern](../../libnetdata/simple_pattern/README.md)
-to create many alarms with a regex-like syntax.
-
-The `foreach` parameter _has_ to be the last parameter in your `lookup` line, and if you have both `of` and `foreach` in
-the same `lookup` line, Netdata will ignore the `of` parameter and use `foreach` instead.
-
-Let's get into some examples so you can see how the new parameter works.
-
-> ⚠️ The following entities are examples to showcase the functionality and syntax of dimension templates. They are not
-> meant to be run as-is on production systems.
-
-## Condensing entities with `foreach`
-
-Let's say you want to monitor the `system`, `user`, and `nice` dimensions in your system's overall CPU utilization.
-Before dimension templates, you would need the following three entities:
-
-```yaml
- alarm: cpu_system
- on: system.cpu
-lookup: average -10m percentage of system
- every: 1m
- warn: $this > 50
- crit: $this > 80
-
- alarm: cpu_user
- on: system.cpu
-lookup: average -10m percentage of user
- every: 1m
- warn: $this > 50
- crit: $this > 80
-
- alarm: cpu_nice
- on: system.cpu
-lookup: average -10m percentage of nice
- every: 1m
- warn: $this > 50
- crit: $this > 80
-```
-
-With dimension templates, you can condense these into a single alarm. Take note of the `alarm` and `lookup` lines.
-
-```yaml
- alarm: cpu_template
- on: system.cpu
-lookup: average -10m percentage foreach system,user,nice
- every: 1m
- warn: $this > 50
- crit: $this > 80
-```
-
-The `alarm` line specifies the naming scheme Netdata will use. You can use whatever naming scheme you'd like, with `.`
-and `_` being the only allowed symbols.
-
-The `lookup` line has changed from `of` to `foreach`, and we're now passing three dimensions.
-
-In this example, Netdata will create three alarms with the names `cpu_template_system`, `cpu_template_user`, and
-`cpu_template_nice`. Every minute, each alarm will use the same database query to calculate the average CPU usage for
-the `system`, `user`, and `nice` dimensions over the last 10 minutes and send out alarms if necessary.
-
-You can find these three alarms active by clicking on the **Alarms** button in the top navigation, and then clicking on
-the **All** tab and scrolling to the **system - cpu** collapsible section.
-
-![Three new alarms created from the dimension template](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/66218994-29523800-e67f-11e9-9bcb-9bca23e2c554.png)
-
-Let's look at some other examples of how `foreach` works so you can best apply it in your configurations.
-
-### Using a Netdata simple pattern in `foreach`
-
-In the last example, we used `foreach system,user,nice` to create three distinct alarms using dimension templates. But
-what if you want to quickly create alarms for _all_ the dimensions of a given chart?
-
-Use a [simple pattern](../../libnetdata/simple_pattern/README.md)! One example of a simple pattern is a single wildcard
-(`*`).
-
-Instead of monitoring system CPU usage, let's monitor per-application CPU usage using the `apps.cpu` chart. Passing a
-wildcard as the simple pattern tells Netdata to create a separate alarm for _every_ process on your system:
-
-```yaml
- alarm: app_cpu
- on: apps.cpu
-lookup: average -10m percentage foreach *
- every: 1m
- warn: $this > 50
- crit: $this > 80
-```
-
-This entity will now create alarms for every dimension in the `apps.cpu` chart. Given that most `apps.cpu` charts have
-10 or more dimensions, using the wildcard ensures you catch every CPU-hogging process.
-
-To learn more about how to use simple patterns with dimension templates, see our [simple patterns
-documentation](../../libnetdata/simple_pattern/README.md).
-
-## Using `foreach` with alarm templates
-
-Dimension templates also work with [alarm templates](../../health/README.md#entities-in-the-health-files). Alarm
-templates help you create alarms for all the charts with a given context—for example, all the cores of your system's
-CPU.
-
-By combining the two, you can create dozens of individual alarms with a single template entity. Here's how you would
-create alarms for the `system`, `user`, and `nice` dimensions for every chart in the `cpu.cpu` context—or, in other
-words, every CPU core.
-
-```yaml
-template: cpu_template
- on: cpu.cpu
- lookup: average -10m percentage foreach system,user,nice
- every: 1m
- warn: $this > 50
- crit: $this > 80
-```
-
-On a system with a 6-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 1600 CPU, this one entity creates alarms on the following charts and
-dimensions:
-
-- `cpu.cpu0`
- - `cpu_template_user`
- - `cpu_template_system`
- - `cpu_template_nice`
-- `cpu.cpu1`
- - `cpu_template_user`
- - `cpu_template_system`
- - `cpu_template_nice`
-- `cpu.cpu2`
- - `cpu_template_user`
- - `cpu_template_system`
- - `cpu_template_nice`
-- ...
-- `cpu.cpu11`
- - `cpu_template_user`
- - `cpu_template_system`
- - `cpu_template_nice`
-
-And how just a few of those dimension template-generated alarms look like in the Netdata dashboard.
-
-![A few of the created alarms in the Netdata dashboard](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/66219669-708cf880-e680-11e9-8b3a-7bfe178fa28b.png)
-
-All in all, this single entity creates 36 individual alarms. Much easier than writing 36 separate entities in your
-health configuration files!
-
-## What's next?
-
-We hope you're excited about the possibilities of using dimension templates! Maybe they'll inspire you to build new
-alarms that will help you better monitor the health of your systems.
-
-Or, at the very least, simplify your configuration files.
-
-For information about other advanced features in Netdata's health monitoring toolkit, check out our [health
-documentation](../../health/). And if you have some cool alarms you built using dimension templates,
-
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