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I have a service check that returns a single value of a queue length for one of our applications. That's well and good, but in an of itselfs, the depth of that queue isn't a great indicator of system health. There are times when it is Ok for the queue to have a couple thousand items in it so long as the rate of decrease is healthy. The problem is I have no way of directly measuring that decrease.

I can certainly write a script to track the queue length over time and report back a measure of rate of decrease. But given that the data is in RRD already, I would like to know if something exists in the nagios community to do some stats on RRD data to provide statistics for that data.

Thanks
\\Greg

If you need the stats generated and evaluated automatically, you may have to code a custom solution/script. If you just want to graph the perfdata from the check for human evaluation, you should look into pnp4nagios.