It'd be cleaner and slightly quicker to exclude bad things in a single match entry, otherwise it's taking three queries instead of one :)
adam.
Sent from Mailbird [http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm...] On 23/06/2016 22:28:17, Dano, Leo ldano@qualcomm.com wrote: Actually spoke too soon and did it with entity match Associations Add Device Match Entity Match * mempool_descr match *Physical* * mempool_descr match *Swap* * mempool_descr match *Virtual* Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 2:25 PM To: observium@observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checker for memory? You can exclude entities by mempool_descr, perhaps "mempool_descr notmatch *Cache*" ? adam. Sent from Mailbird [http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm...] On 23/06/2016 22:04:59, Dano, Leo <ldano@qualcomm.com [mailto:ldano@qualcomm.com]> wrote: I created an alert to let me know when a host uses over 90% of its memory. The problem is that linux uses over that in “cached” memory. Is there a way to exclude cached memory? Physical and Swap are fine. I am using mempool_perc greater 90 in Check Conditions. Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano