Can someone explain the CPU 5 minute load average thing to me?
So, We have a server currently alerting us because the 5MinLoadPerCore field is > 1. I'm trying to understand why that is. I found this page that says if that number is >1, it means there are things queued up waiting for the CPU and there's a backlog. https://www.logicmonitor.com/blog/what-the-heck-is-cpu-load-on-a-linux-machine-and-why-do-i-care However, the server in question has the CPUs currently running at around 60%. I would think that if it were backed up, it should be cranking at 99% trying to catch up. I would think the 5minload alert and a CPU Usage percentage alert would come as a pair, but they don't. Just trying to figure out if there's anything that can be done when we get the 5Min alerts or if they're more just informational and can be ignored. They only come in as a Warning anyway, so if it's just informational, then it's just noise, and maybe we'll just turn them off. Just looking for other opinions. ;) Thanks.How do you handle Disk Space alerting?
Hi, The LM standard is to do disk space alerting based on the percentage of space used. E.g. 90% warning, 95% error, 98% critical (or whatever). This is great for machines with an average size drive, but is completely useless for machine with giant drives. We have some machines that might have drives that are multiple Terabytes in size. Getting an alert when a 2TB drive is 90% full doesn't help because it still has 200 Gigs free. For all our Windows servers, we've added additional alerting based on a hard coded 10 Gigs free on the C drive because Windows Updates generally have issues if you have less than that. This has helped a bunch for smaller drives where 10 Gigs free isn't small enough to hit the Percent-based alerting because maybe it's only a 60 Gig C drive. I'm just wondering what everyone else does for these types of alerts. Do you use the percentage based alerts for most machines but then create new ones, or change the percentage for large or small servers? Do you change everything to a hard size limit? Some other combination? Just looking for ideas so we can try to reduce the unnecessary alerts for servers with huge drives and get alerts for ones with tiny drives. Thanks.Feature Request - Alerting Protection Prompt
I would like to submit a recommendation for a feature request please. This would benefit a lot off users I believe. I work for a large managed service provider with many customers in LM. While checking my customers today I noticed the top level resource grouping for one of them had Alerting switched OFF. I asked an LM Admin to check who had set this and when to discover after further investigation an engineer had mistakenly clicked this 5 days ago. Given how easy this click to alter status and the potential impact it has is, I recommend if this is altered a pop-up prompt to confirm you are sure is flagged as well as potentially capturing a note as to a reason.Feature Request - New property to indicate monitoring is disabled
I have a problem where my users will disable alertingon a resource that has been removed from the environment instead of deleting it. Or they may disable alerting and forget to re-enable it. With alerting disabled, my no-data datapoint alerts never trigger. In the case of removed devices, the resources just hang out there forever andnever getremoved because theydon’t show up on my data collection failures dashboard. Devices for which the user intended to re-enable alerting eventually meet the same fate unless they go down and we don’t know about it. Either of these outcomes is bad news. It would be nice if there were a property which would indicate that alerting for aresource has been disabled. As far as I am aware, there is currently no way to do this. Then I couldcreate a dynamic group of devices which have monitoring disabled. As devices are populated in the group, I can investigate them. As it stands now, I have to go manually hunt them down.
New UI Enhancements/ Feature Request
Being able to select several alerts at once and from the Actions menu have disable/enable alerting available, preferable as a cycle alerting option so that it disables and enables automatically, that we can allow anyone to perform. As we often set SDT and need to clear the alerts in CSM, in order to achieve this we select disable then enable on each alert individually when there is over 100 alerts this can be a pain.
Netflow Alerting Rules
Not only restricting you to visualising the Netflow data on LM Platform. Interestingly, the most recent improvement to LogicMonitor Netflow is the Traffic Alerting Rules. It is possible to set up traffic alert rules for the NetFlow resources to get alerts when a resource's traffic hits a specific threshold, drops off for a specified length of time, etc. Traffic Alerting Rules feature are available and you can create rules at: Traffic Alert Rule at Group Level Traffic Alert Rule at Resource Level Don't missout on the advantages of this feature and refer the below link for more details. https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/traffic-alert-rule