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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+=encoding UTF-8
+
 =head1 NAME
 
 collectd-threshold - Documentation of collectd's I<Threshold plugin>
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ Also, all values that match a threshold are considered to be relevant or
 "interesting". As a consequence collectd will issue a notification if they are
 not received for B<Timeout> iterations. The B<Timeout> configuration option is
 explained in section L<collectd.conf(5)/"GLOBAL OPTIONS">. If, for example,
-B<Timeout> is set to "2" (the default) and some hosts sends it's CPU statistics
+B<Timeout> is set to "2" (the default) and some hosts sends its CPU statistics
 to the server every 60 seconds, a notification will be dispatched after about
 120 seconds. It may take a little longer because the timeout is checked only
 once each B<Interval> on the server.
@@ -184,10 +186,12 @@ state will be keep.
 
 =item B<Interesting> B<true>|B<false>
 
-If set to B<true> (the default), the threshold must be treated as interesting
-and, when a number of B<Timeout> values will lost, then a missing notification
-will be dispatched. On the other hand, if set to B<false>, the missing
-notification will never dispatched for this threshold.
+If set to B<true> (the default), a notification with severity C<FAILURE> will
+be created when a matching value list is no longer updated and purged from the
+internal cache. When this happens depends on the I<interval> of the value list
+and the global B<Timeout> setting. See the B<Interval> and B<Timeout> settings
+in L<collectd.conf(5)> for details. If set to B<false>, this event will be
+ignored.
 
 =back