Delaying alerts

[cowbsh]

I just updated to V8 hoping this issue would go away, but it didn't. I am receiving multiple consecutive alerts due to CPU fluttering. I have set the time period to 15 minutes, but I continue to get alerts and resets consecutively often 1 minute apart. Below are screenshots to show the configuration and the alerts received with timestamps. Am I missing something or misunderstanding what the "Time Period" does?

Alert Emails:
http://1drv.ms/1ys051f

Alarm Settings:
http://1drv.ms/1yrZo80

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Brent,

Alarm gets triggered if the performance counter value has been above the threshold for the past 15 minutes in your case. Based on the screenshots I see that the CPU usage is always near 75% and spikes above this value for some time which makes the average usage of the counter above 75%.

In order to fix this behavior, I would suggest either adjusting the threshold to 80% or increasing the time period to more than 15 minutes.

Hope it helps! Thanks!

[cowbsh]

That makes sense, thank you. I was assuming it meant the CPU had to be over 75% for 15 minutes before an alert fired. Thank you.

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes, unfortunately, that's the usual confusion I hear about this parameter Let me think about a better way of naming this alarm setting.