Polling Intervals - Best Practices

That's one of those "it depends" kind of questions. But the general rule of thumb is that the shorter the polling interval, the more strain on a polling engine (and more granularity in polling results). The opposite is true as well (more time between = less strain = less granularity)

With a few exceptions, I have typically found that the default polling intervals are a great starting point for any environment. After 30 days, look at your historical data and you can then tell if you need to adjust based on granularity of data and the "load" on your polling engines.

Thanks Zac,

I figured the default settings would take a heavy hit on the processor engine.

I wanted to get back to where it was when the original guy set it up.

He was a genius and had this running perfectly.

I'm sure that keeping it at default won't hurt anything more than generating a lot of alerts.

Thanks Zac,

I figured the default settings would take a heavy hit on the processor engine.

I wanted to get back to where it was when the original guy set it up.

He was a genius and had this running perfectly.

I'm sure that keeping it at default won't hurt anything more than generating a lot of alerts.

You can check you polling engine capacity by going to Settings > Polling Engines from the website.

For each polling engine, there will be a 'Polling Rate', this will be a good representation of your server's capacity for polling at the current intervals. (There is a more detailed explanation of this metric under the 'Learn More' link.

With so many admins and upgrades and changes, it would be nice to have a button that resets everything back to what Solarwinds deems as the best practice settings.