Be aware this is a joke. ๐
I had alert from a memcached service that mentioning for all the time that hit rate was too low, after checking it I found it was actually because the traffic was too low (the site was not in production yet), so how to solve this problem?
After thinking of various “serious” solutions, I finally turned to running a script, keep hitting the entries (actually, only one specific entry) in the cache, so to raise the hit rate to a level that makes Nagios stop alerting me.
OK, OK, I know this is bad, but fun, isn’t it?
Actually this causes another thinking – if there is a particular key having high miss rate, do we care? If we do then the monitoring mechanism won’t work for that case …