Overview

This guide shows how to create alerts that would not notify for each single group meeting the condition, but only when a given percent of them do. This is helpful, for example, if you want a monitor that alerts only when a given percentage of hosts or containers reach a critical state.

Example: Alert for a percentage of hosts with high CPU usage

In this example, you want to receive a notification when 40 percent of hosts have a CPU usage above 50 percent. Leverage the min_cutoff and count_nonzero functions:

• Use the min_cutoff function to count the number of hosts that have CPU usage above 50 percent.
• Use the count_nonzero function to count the total number of hosts.
• Divide one by the other for the resulting percentage of hosts with CPU usage above 50 percent.

• Then, set the condition to alert if the percentage of hosts in that condition reaches 40 percent.

This monitor tracks the percentage of host that have a CPU usage above 50 percent within the last ten minutes and generates a notification if more than 40 percent of those hosts meet the specified condition.

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Learn how to create a monitorDOCUMENTATION Configure your monitor notificationsDOCUMENTATION