Infrastructure alerting examples

High CPU usage

Problem:

Your Ops team monitors a filtered set of host clusters in your eastern region and notices that the CPU usage is constantly high.

Solution:

Use the CPU chart on our Hosts page to create an alert condition for system metrics.

Virtual memory capacity

Problem:

Your night shift needs to be alerted when virtual memory for a set of background workers reaches an average of 10G for at least two minutes.

Solution:

Use the Top memory consumers chart on our Processes page to create an alert condition for process metrics.

Limited bandwidth

Problem:

You want to monitor performance based on the average number of errors received or transmitted.

Solution:

Use the Top bandwidth chart on our Network page to create an alert condition for network metrics.

I/O read and write operations

Problem:

You are testing a new set of hosts in your staging environment, and you want to be notified when their read or write capacity rises above your test threshold level.

Solution:

Use the Top I/O operations chart on our Storage page to create an alert condition for storage metrics.

Host not reporting

Problem:

You want to be notified when we have stopped receiving data from an infrastructure agent.

Solution:

From the Hosts UI, create a host not reporting alert condition.

Processes not running as expected

Problem:

• You want to be notified if any of the processes on your hosts stop reporting.

  OR

• A process you expected to start on a host (such as a new program) is not actually running.

  Solution:

  From the Processes UI, create a process running alert condition.