To extend on this idea a little bit, once you have the data in graphite you can use it as input to an alerting system. As an example, here's a Nagios plugin I w

To extend on this idea a little bit, once you have the data in graphite you can use it as input to an alerting system. As an example, here's a Nagios plugin I wrote to do that- https://github.com/sciurus/grallect https://github.com/sciurus/grallect