360Live Watchers: Understanding the meaning of each Condition Type

Symptom

This article aims to provide additional details to the following different conditions that are available when creating an alert:
  1. Instant Value: alert triggered whenever the specified criterion is met.
  2. Duration: alert triggered if the specified criterion is met for the specified number of consecutive monitoring ticks.
  3. Mean Validity: alert triggered if the criterion is met on the basis of a ratio of the specified number of ticks to a given maximum number of ticks (e.g.: 5 ticks out of 15 meet the specified value).
  4. Mean Value: alert triggered if the average value calculated over the specified number of ticks (last n ticks) meets the criterion (e.g.: 10 ticks specified; CPU load of 60% specified: if, over 10 ticks, the average CPU load reaches 60%: trigger alert).


Environment

  • 360Suite Web Platform
  • 360Live

Resolution

For illustration purposes, the below graph depicts a series of data points (the peaks and troughs) and the threshold which is 100.



Below are each condition explained in relation to the graph above.

1) Instant Value

Depicted in green on the above graph.
The watcher is triggered at 8 am.


2) Duration

Depicted in green on the above graph.
The watcher is triggered at 8 am.
It requires 10 consecutive data points in order to validate the criterion.



3) Mean Validity

Depicted in orange on the above graph.
The watcher is triggered at 8 am.
Thera have been 5 data points above 100 amongst the last 10 data points.

4) Mean Value

Depicted in grey on the above graph.
The watcher is triggered at 8:21 am.
The average of the last 10 data points is greater than 100.

Keywords

monitoring, watchers, conditions, alert, alerting

Product

Product or Product version
  • 360Suite Web Platform

Languages

  • English US
  • English UK
  • French

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