Documentation is sadly always a lowish priority, especially for things like this which were added at 4am in the morning after a user request :)
adam. On 2019-04-03 15:35:11, Adam Ward via observium observium@observium.org wrote: Team, The most difficult part of alert checker creation is finding all the detected entity types to alert for. I noticed for Linux, there’s a special entity type for average CPU, but I cannot figure out how to see what’s available? I see this on the entity page, but how do I know what that entity is named? Special Situations¶ [https://docs.observium.org/entities/#special-situations_1] On UNIX/Linux systems we generate a special "Average" processor entity by calculating the average cpu load for all processors. Use this for alerting on UNIX/Linux. Adam Ward Systems Engineer Shamrock Trading Corporation Office Phone/Fax: (913) 310-2247 Email: award@rtsfinancial.com [mailto:award@rtsfinancial.com] Website: www.shamrocktradingcorp.com [http://www.shamrocktradingcorp.com/] This e-mail communication (including any attachments) is intended only for use by the individual or entity named above and is considered confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you should immediately stop reading this message and delete it from your system. Any unauthorized reading, distribution, copying or other use of this communication (or its attachments) is strictly prohibited.