Dynamic Polling Interval Change

bill07407

We currently poll every 5 minutes. We often see an application in warning or critical state that 5 minutes later is back to green. We are getting ready to set up email warnings of applications in warning or critical state but have a dilemma. Since the warning or critical states are usually resolved by the time of the next polling 5 minutes later we do not want the email sent after only 1 "incident" because of false alarms. But if we wait for 2 or 3 "incidents" we have the potential of having an application down as long as 10 or 15 minutes and having users adversly effected. Ideally if we could change the polling interval after the first incident to 1 minute then from the time when the app looked OK to when we have polled 3 times and  only 7 minutes has elapsed and we know it is not a false alarm. Is this possible? 

qle

You can create an advanced alert that triggers only when the trigger condition(s) have been met for x minutes. In other words, the alert would detect that the application is not up and will stay in a holding pattern. If you look at the list of active alerts, you'll see the alert is preparing to trigger. After x minutes, if the application is still not up, it'll trigger and follow through with all of your defined alert actions. It's not exactly what you were looking for regarding dynamic polling intervals but perhaps it's a workable solution?