Dynamic warning/critical thresholds

[Jonathan Gazeley]

On 22/06/12 15:11, Jonathan Gazeley wrote:
> I've got a bunch of Nagios plugins that monitor things like
> DNS/HTTP/RADIUS hits per second.
>
> I've set what I believe to be sensible max/min warning thresholds but
> what I really want is dynamic thresholds. If some quantity suddenly
> doubles or halves, I'd like an alert.
>
> For example, if I usually serve 10 DNS lookups per second, and suddenly
> it is doing 20 per second, that isn't a "fault" but I would like to know
> about it, because it might mean there is a problem with the network in
> general.
>
> Is there a way of doing this?
>

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jonathan

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