mcelog: only send notifications for new errors

[collectd.git] / src / collectd.conf.pod

diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod
index 6a7a917..3202015 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@ -3471,7 +3471,9 @@ By default the plugin connects to B<"/var/run/mcelog-client"> to check if the
 mcelog server is running. When the server is running, the plugin will tail the
 specified logfile to retrieve machine check exception information and send a
 notification with the details from the logfile. The plugin will use the mcelog
-client protocol to retrieve memory related machine check exceptions.
+client protocol to retrieve memory related machine check exceptions. Note that
+for memory exceptions, notifications are only sent when there is a change in
+the number of corrected/uncorrected memory errors.
 
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