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Sphinx Monitoring

Monitors Sphinx, an open-source SQL full-text search engine.
Overview
Monitors Sphinx, an open-source SQL full-text search engine, reporting the metrics below:
- Queries per-minute
- Average query time
- Average time per rebuild
- Index rebuilds
- Average results returned
Installing
Just provide the path to the searchd log files. Note that the first run will not return any data.
Alerts
Two default triggers — which monitor trends in the query rate and average query time — are installed with this plugin. These triggers can be adjusted to your system. An example alert: