Prevention of event flooding
Techniques for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, comprising: responsive to receiving, by an analysis component, monitored activity data, an analysis component for analyzing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event; responsive to determining a potential event, an analysis component identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values; responsive to a positive determination, an analysis component for determining if the met threshold value is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event; and responsive to a second positive determination, a disregard component for disregarding the potential event.
1. An apparatus for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of processors;
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium (CRSM); and
logic, stored on the CRSM and executed on the plurality of processors, for:
responsive to receiving monitored activity data, analysing the monitored activity data to identify an event value corresponding to an event;
responsive to identifying the event value, identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the event value has met a first threshold value of the set of threshold values;
responsive to determining that the event value has met the first threshold value, determining if the first threshold value is equal a second threshold value met by a previous event; and
responsive to determining that the first threshold value is equal the second threshold value, disregarding the event.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein responsive to determining that the first threshold value is not equal the second threshold value, communicating the event to a filtering component for determining whether the event is an event which is to be communicated to an event consumer.
3. The apparatus claim 1 , wherein the event is a number of changing activities over a time period.
4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the set of threshold values are a scalar numerical measurement scale.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the event is a number of active transactions for a determined time period.
6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the set of threshold values are a scalar numerical measurement scale.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise an ascending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which are identified as ascending a numerical measurement scale.
8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise a descending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which are identified as descending a numerical measurement scale.
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program code executed by a plurality of processors to perform a method comprising:
responsive to receiving monitored activity data, analysing the monitored activity data to identify an event value corresponding to an event;
responsive to a identifying the event value, identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the event value has met a first threshold value of the set of threshold values;
responsive to determining that the event value has met the first threshold value, determining if the first threshold value is equal a second threshold value met by a previous event; and
responsive to determining that the first threshold value is equal the second threshold value, disregarding the event.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein responsive to determining that the first threshold value is not equal the second threshold value, communicating the event to a filtering component for determining whether the event is an event which is to be communicated to an event consumer.
11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the event is a number of active transactions for a determined time period.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise an ascending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which are identified as ascending a numerical measurement scale.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise a descending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which are identified as descending a numerical measurement scale.