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Change the Default Metric Policy behavior

Prior to customization, APEX AIOps Incident Management uses the Default Metric Policy to accept all metrics, store them, and use some initial suggested settings to evaluate the data for anomalies. When other metric policies are enabled, this policy evaluates the metric data which does not match any other policy. The Default Metric Policy is always enabled and appears last in the list of metric policies.

If the initial settings are appropriate for the data storage and anomaly detection needs of your environment, you can choose to keep the Default Metric Policy as it is and do nothing additional. If your environment requires a more customized approach, you can create additional metric policies and let the default policy evaluate the metric data that does not match them.

You can also modify the default settings to drop unmatched metric data. When you have enabled additional metric policies, the Default Metric Policy only applies to metric data that does not match your other policies. If you create policies for all metric data of interest, you can set the Default Metric Policy to drop the remaining data if you do not want to store it or use it in anomaly detection.

To modify the default policy:

  1. Navigate to Correlate & Automate > Metric Policies.

  2. Click Default in the list, and then click Edit on the next page.

  3. Make any changes to the policy as needed. For details on the different settings, see Configure metric policies.

    Note that there are several items in the default policy that you cannot modify:

    • The location of the policy in the list (it always appears last)

    • The name

    • The description

    • The scope

    • Whether it is enabled or disabled (it is always enabled)

    The Default Metric Policy also cannot be deleted.

  4. Click Save.

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