---
title: "Alarm Management"
diataxis: how-to
applies_to:
  product: "nirmata-control-hub"
audience: ["platform-engineer"]
last_updated: 2025-11-01
url: https://docs.nirmata.io/docs/control-hub/settings/alarms/alarm-management/
---

 
Nirmata organizes alarms by category and severity to streamline management and make it easier to focus on the highest-priority alarms. Alarm lists can be filtered using the Search functionality to further narrow results.

There are three primary alarm categories:

* **Applications:** alarms triggered by application components (Application, Pods etc.)
* **Clusters:** alarms triggered by cluster components (Cluster, Nodes etc.)
* **Policy Violations:** alarms triggered when resources do not comply with policies.

Within each alarm category, there are four severity levels:

    1. Critical
    2. Major
    3. Minor
    4. Informational

To access alarms:

1. Click on *Alarms* in the sidebar menu.

![image](/images/alarm-panel-1.png)

2. Click on an Alarm Category card to view all of the alarms within the category.

3. Click on a Severity grouping on an Alarm Category card to view alarms with specific severity.

The number of alarms in each segment is displayed on the Alarm Category card.

![image](/images/alarm-panel-2.png)

To filter the results in the Alarm list, use the Search box at the top of the alarm listing.

![image](/images/alarm-panel-3.png)