Embodiments of the present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for performing alarm service on a distributed cluster system, which is applied to the module for automatically detecting an alarm service item. The method includes: automatically detecting and identifying software and hardware service items of cluster nodes in a distributed cluster system; determining a target hardware and software service item from the software and hardware service items; and filling the target software and hardware service item into an alarm service item list of a configuration file of an alarm management module to enable the alarm management module to perform an alarm service on the distributed cluster system according to the alarm service item list in the configuration file after the alarm management module is started. The above method and apparatus can avoid the system administrator from manually adding the alarm service list to the configuration file of each server node in the distributed cluster system, reducing the error rate of the manual operation, enhancing the reliability of the alarm management module and improving the deployment efficiency of the distributed cluster system.