Do you have any other monitoring?

Typically, when I'm doing monitoring, I don't just look for yes/no answers, but I try to find things that might be a sign of trends -- in a case like this, I might look at the total time that it took to get the page ... that way, I can graph it in MRTG (or whatever you favorite graphing program is).

If I saw an increased response time around the timeout, I'd look to see what the load was on the machine, and assume that the monitoring wasn't at fault ... if it was an isolated failure, then I'd have to look at the monitoring from end to end.

(it's like the 'check engine' light on your car -- I'd much rather have a series of gauges, so I had some earlier warnings that something's trending upwards, rather than some light turn on once it his a threshold)

Anyway, I'd try to look at whatever other logs you might have, as there might be anomalies that would indicate what went wrong, or at least hint at where to look.

In reply to Re: Net::SSL SSL read timeout by jhourcle
in thread Net::SSL SSL read timeout by cbrandtbuffalo

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