Recently, we implemented AlertThrottle which is a terrific little app which limits (in our case) the amount of emails if something is past a particular value. The second half of our task is to identify events that occur below a threshold but is a significant jump in value.
Example: Disk is 20% full, it jumps to 50% in the matter of an hour but doesn't trigger the disk alert which is set at 85%.
I am looking for guidance or any suggestions of how to go about this. Basically we are comparing two values over a period of time and if it exceeds a limit within that moving time frame an alert is triggered.
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