Best practices for choosing monitoring conditions

[Jacob Share]

Hi
I recently started using monit to watch my EC2 instances. I researched 
recommendations for the different servers I'm running such as nginx and 
mysql and I'd like to figure out what are the most appropriate 
conditions I should be checking for in my server context.

The examples I found e.g. for nginx mention comparing values for 
totalmem/children/loadavg/inodes and more, but I couldn't find any 
documentation anywhere with guidelines on how to calculate sensible 
values to compare against in a given server context.

Any tips?

Thanks,

Jacob

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