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diff --git a/health/README.md b/health/README.md index 848c1bc3b..ab8d6882a 100644 --- a/health/README.md +++ b/health/README.md @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ This is useful when you centralize metrics from multiple hosts, to one Netdata. This line is only used in alarm templates. It filters the charts. So, if you need to create an alarm template for a few of a kind of chart (a few of your disks, or a few of your network interfaces, or a few your mysql servers, etc), you can create an alarm template that would -normally be applied to all of them, and filter them by [family](../docs/Charts.md#families). +normally be applied to all of them, and filter them by [family](../web/README.md#families). The format is: @@ -347,7 +347,8 @@ delay: [[[up U] [down D] multiplier M] max X] #### Alarm line `repeat` -Defines the interval between repeating notifications for the alarms in CRITICAL or WARNING mode. This will override the default interval settings inherited from health settings in `netdata.conf`. The default settings for repeating notifications are `default repeat warning = DURATION` and `default repeat critical = DURATION` which can be found in health stock configuration. +Defines the interval between repeating notifications for the alarms in CRITICAL or WARNING mode. This will override the default interval settings inherited from health settings in `netdata.conf`. The default settings for repeating notifications are `default repeat warning = DURATION` and `default repeat critical = DURATION` which can be found in health stock configuration, when one of these interval is bigger than 0, Netdata will activate the repeat notification for `CRITICAL`, `CLEAR` and `WARNING` messages. +` Format: @@ -445,12 +446,13 @@ You can find all the variables that can be used for a given chart, using `http://your.netdata.ip:19999/api/v1/alarm_variables?chart=CHART_NAME` Example: [variables for the `system.cpu` chart of the registry](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/alarm_variables?chart=system.cpu). -_Hint: If you don't know how to find the CHART_NAME, you can read about it [here](../docs/Charts.md#charts)._ +_Hint: If you don't know how to find the CHART_NAME, you can read about it [here](../web/README.md#charts)._ Netdata supports 3 internal indexes for variables that will be used in health monitoring. <details markdown="1"><summary>The variables below can be used in both chart alarms and context templates.</summary> -Although the `alarm_variables` link shows you variables for a particular chart, the same variables can also be used in templates for charts belonging to the same [context](../docs/Charts.md#contexts). The reason is that all charts of a given contexts are essentially identical, with the only difference being the [family](../docs/Charts.md#families) that identifies a particular hardware or software instance. Charts and templates do not apply to specific families anyway, unless if you explicitly limit an alarm with the [alarm line `families`](#alarm-line-families). + +Although the `alarm_variables` link shows you variables for a particular chart, the same variables can also be used in templates for charts belonging to a given [context](../web/README.md#contexts). The reason is that all charts of a given context are essentially identical, with the only difference being the [family](../web/README.md#families) that identifies a particular hardware or software instance. Charts and templates do not apply to specific families anyway, unless if you explicitly limit an alarm with the [alarm line `families`](#alarm-line-families). </details> - **chart local variables**. All the dimensions of the chart are exposed as local variables. The value of $this for the other configured alarms of the chart also appears, under the name of each configured alarm. |