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		AYBABTME on Feb 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prometheus on Raspberry Pi There's a problem with metrics over UDP: an overloaded server will not be sending its metrics, so it will appear as if it's doing ok.

rcarmo on Feb 10, 2015 [–]

Your assumption is wrong, since lack of data points in a given time interval is, in itself, a data point. If metrics don't arrive on time after a set interval, the machine is flagged.

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