It would be good to have a data transformation function that can be applied in the 'Convert Value' field for converting Unix Epoch time value to a human-readable string. I have a 3rd party Java application (Apache Flume) that I'm monitoring with a JMX monitor that passes back dates in Epoch time.
It would then be helpful to be able to create a warning or error threshold that is date-orientated. For instance, if converted value is 22/03/2013 11:33:22 the warning condition could be set as "older than" in the drop-down box and "1 day/second/week" in the text field.
I'm aware that you could encode the warning/error thresholds in seconds using the raw Unix Epoch value, but then the field value itself is still unreadable to humans without some conversion.
This is related to question: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/201210#
Thanks,
James
