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title: "How to Create a Trigger with Stress Levels"
slug: "how-to-create-an-incident-trigger-for-a-specific-metric"
updated: 2025-09-07T10:37:31Z
published: 2025-09-07T10:37:31Z
canonical: "support.controlup.com/how-to-create-an-incident-trigger-for-a-specific-metric"
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# How to Create a Trigger with Stress Levels

The following article walks you through the steps to define a **Trigger** with **Stress Levels**. This example creates an alert when the system drive is below 2000 MB.

## Create a Trigger

To create a specific trigger, you must first define the Stress Level Settings as needed.

1. From the **Settings** menu, open **Stress Level Settings** > **Free Space on System Drive** and define the counter as follows:

- **Red**: 2000 (MB). If disk space falls below 2000 MB, the Stress Level will display in red.
- **Load**: 2. Loads determine Stress Levels. The stress is the sum total of all Loads that have met the threshold conditions.

The following example shows that the stress level will be medium if the **Free Space on System Drive** counter meets the 2000 MB threshold:

![Stress Level Settings showing Free Space on System Drive counter](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/1(1).png)

In order to receive a notification when Free Space in System Drive equals or below 2000MB, you must create a relevant **Trigger**.

2. Click **Triggers** and click **Add Trigger**.

3. Select the **Stress Level** trigger type and click **Next**.

4. Define the Trigger as follows:

- **Record Type**: Machine.
- **Stress Level**: Medium.
- **Duration**: 3 Seconds.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image-1684738391106.png)

In Stress Settings, you defined that if the free space is less than 2000 MB, the Stress Level will reach Medium. This is why you choose that if the Stress Level reaches Medium, it will fire the Trigger.

5. Click **Filter editor**.

6. In the **Filter Editor**, from the **New Item** list, select **Free Space on the System Drive**, and verify that the argument meets the alert requirement if the free space is equal or less than 2000 MB. Click **OK**.

7. Select **CU-Academy** (ControlUp Organization) as the **Scope** and **All days** as the **Schedule**. Click **Next**.

The following example shows that all machines in the child folders under the ControlUp Organization are included in the trigger: ![add new incident trigger popup showing folders](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image-1684739520069.png)

8. Click **Add** and select **Send an e-mail alert** as the follow-up action. Select organization users as needed to receive the alert and click **OK**.

9. Select how long the trigger will wait before it repeats the action. Click **Next**.

10. Click **Finish**.

You created a Trigger that collects Stress Level data as incidents to alert the selected users. You can view incident details in the **Incidents** pane and **Historical Reports**.

For more information about Stress Levels and Triggers, see [Stress Settings](/tim-reorg/docs/stress-settings) and [Create a Trigger](/tim-reorg/docs/incident-triggers).