Community
- Command Central
- MVP Program
- Monthly Mission
- Blogs
- Groups
- Events
- Media Vault
Products
- Observability
- Network Management
- Application Management
- IT Security
- IT Service Management
- System Management
- Database Management
Content Exchange
- SolarWinds Platform
- Server & Application Monitor
- Database Performance Analyzer
- Server Configuration Monitor
- Network Performance Monitor
- Network Configuration Manager
- SQL Sentry
- Web Help Desk
Free Tools & Trials
Store

Custom Load Average Alert

I am curious if anybody has taken the time to write an alert that looks at load average on a Linux/Unix server that then takes the load value and divides it by the number of CPU's in the box?

Find more posts tagged with

Accepted answers

All comments

bradl

I have the same requirement. Need to configure alerting when the load average exceeds the number of processors (or when the normalized load averages is greater than 1).

tech2734

This is an old question, but I have written an alert for this.

I want to alert on:

Custom SWQL Alert

Set up your SWQL condition:

SELECT Nodes.Uri, Nodes.DisplayName FROM Orion.Nodes AS Nodes

WHERE Nodes.CustomProperties.Environment = 'Linux Non-Prod System'

AND Nodes.LoadAverage1 > (Nodes.CPUCount * 6)

OR Nodes.CustomProperties.Environment = 'Linux Non-Prod System'

AND Nodes.LoadAverage5 > (Nodes.CPUCount * 4)

OR Nodes.CustomProperties.Environment = 'Linux Non-Prod System'

AND Nodes.LoadAverage15 > (Nodes.CPUCount * 3)

It works great for us. Let me know if that helps.

tech2734

We have a custom property Environment which we have populated with Linux Non-Prod or Linux Prod. I have two of these set up, one for non production and one for production.