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Alert Thresholds

This page documents all configurable thresholds used by Prometheus alerts in the Yellowbrick platform. These values control when an alert is triggered based on the current system state.

Note These values take precedence over any appliance-level GUCs with the same name. For cloud deployments, only the Prometheus threshold is evaluated.

Threshold List

Threshold NameDescriptionUsed In Alert(s)Default Value
max_user_connectionsMaximum allowed user connections before raising session load alerts.High Database Connections2000
yrs_data_files_count_critical_thresholdYellowbrick row store: critical threshold for data file count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Data Files Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_data_files_count_major_thresholdYellowbrick row store: major threshold for data file count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Data Files Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_data_files_count_minor_thresholdYellowbrick row store: minor threshold for data file count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Data Files Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_commit_records_count_critical_thresholdYellowbrick row store: critical threshold for commit record count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Commit Records Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_commit_records_count_major_thresholdYellowbrick row store: major threshold for commit record count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Commit Records Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_commit_records_count_minor_thresholdYellowbrick row store: minor threshold for commit record count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Commit Records Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_delete_records_count_critical_thresholdYellowbrick row store: critical threshold for delete record count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Delete Records Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_delete_records_count_major_thresholdYellowbrick row store: major threshold for delete record count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Delete Records Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_delete_records_count_minor_thresholdYellowbrick row store: minor threshold for delete record count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Delete Records Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_unused_files_count_critical_thresholdYellowbrick row store: critical threshold for unused file count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Unused Files Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_unused_files_count_major_thresholdYellowbrick row store: major threshold for unused file count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Unused Files Count-1 (disabled)
yrs_unused_files_count_minor_thresholdYellowbrick row store: minor threshold for unused file count.High Yellowbrick Row Store (YRS) Unused Files Count-1 (disabled)
old_chain_threshold_daysMaximum age of a backup chain in days before triggering an alert. Rounded to the closest matching bucket (e.g., 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 60).Backup Chain Age30
ssl_cert_expiry_threshold_daysNumber of days left before expiration before raising SSL certificate expiration alert.SSL Certificate Expiry30

How to Modify Thresholds

Please contact Yellowbrick Technical Support team if you need to update any of these default values.