Snapshots are used on hosts and services to dump a state of an host or a service when there is an error, like dumping processes when your load is too high
- define module {
- module_name snapshot-mongodb module_type mongodb_snapshot uri mongodb://localhost/?safe=false database shinken
}
Declare a snapshot command on a service:
define service{
service_description Load
[...]
snapshot_command dump_processes
snapshot_enabled 1
snapshot_period 24x7
snapshot_criteria w,c,u
}
The data will in the the shinken.snapshots collection