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boottime

Use case

Flag hosts that rebooted unexpectedly recently, or - inverted with reverse_severity (see Configuration) - hosts that haven’t rebooted in a long time (pending kernel/patch reboot).

Configuration

Field Type Meaning
threshold float days; alert (critical) above this; default 180

Output

All datapoints:

Item Type Meaning
boottime_seconds int (seconds) seconds since last reboot
boottime_days int (days) days since last reboot

Example

checks:
  - module: boottime
    name: boottime_local
    conf:
      threshold: 180