Alerts

Axoflow raises alerts for a number of events in your security data pipeline, for example:

  • a destination becomes unavailable or isn’t accepting messages,
  • a host is dropping packets or messages,
  • a host becomes unavailable,
  • the disk queues of a host are filling up,
  • abandoned (orphaned) disk buffer files are on the host,
  • the configuration of a managed host failed to synchronize or reload,
  • traffic of a flow has unexpectedly dropped.

Alerts are indicated at a number of places:

  • On the Alerting page. Select an alert to display its details.

    Alert indicator on the Alerting page

  • On the Topology page:

    Alert indicator on the Topology page

  • On the Overview page of the host:

    Alert indicator on the Host Overview page

  • On the Metrics & Health page of the host the alerts are shown as an overlay to the metrics:

    Alert indicator on the Metrics & Health page