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You don't want an alarm on a usage threshold, you want a linear regression that predicts when utilization will cross a threshold. Then you set your alarms for

• dotancohen 6mo ago
  That's far more complicated and fragile. Where are you storing this log of disk usage? If you already have some external time series database then this is already a solved problem. But for a single server, desktop, or embedded device you'll need a database or text log, a cron job to measure it, and another script to parse, make predictions, and then raise alerts. And a single large dump to disk, like some daemon suddenly bugging out and writing incessantly to logs, will render all that moot anyway.