MUNIN-LIMITS(8)

✨ MUNIN-LIMITS(8) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Munin Documentation corner of the manual-verse 💖 this one's munin-limits, and it's literally the vibe-checker of your monitoring setup. she looks at your values, she checks them against your limits, and she writes receipts. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

munin-limits — a program to check for any off-limit values 👀

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

munin-limits [options]

that's it. that's the whole entrance. she's lowkey minimal like that 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --service <service> — only look at the services that match <service>. you can pass --service multiple times if you're feeling extra, and each one gets added. default is [unset] 🦋
• --host <host<gt> — only look at hosts matching <host<gt>. again, multiple --host options may be supplied. [unset] 🌸
• --contact <contact<gt> — limit the contacts to those of <contact<gt>. yep, multiple --contact options may be supplied too. [unset] 💜
• --config <file> — use <file> as the configuration file. default is [/etc/munin/munin.conf] 🎀
• --always-send <severity list> — force sending of messages even if you normally wouldn't. periodt, no holding back.
  • the <severity list> can be a whitespace or comma separated list of these values: "ok", "warning", "critical" or "unknown".
  • this option may be specified several times, to add more values.
  • using --always-send overrides the "always_send" value in munin.conf for configured contacts. see also --force. 👑
• --force — alias for "--always-send ok,warning,critical,unknown". she's just that girl, but with a shorter name 🔥
• --[no]force-run-as-root — force running as root (stupid and unnecessary, and I'm quoting the manpage there, not being shady on my own account 😭). default is [--noforce-root] 💀
• --help — view the help message. bestie needs directions sometimes, it's fine 🫶
• --[no]debug — if set, view debug messages. default is [--nodebug] 🙈

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Munin-limits is a part of the package Munin, which is used in combination with Munin's node. Munin is a group of programs to gather data from Munin's nodes, graph them, create html-pages, and optionally warn Nagios about any off-limit values. iconic multi-hyphenate behavior honestly ✨

Munin-limits checks if any values are above or below the set limits, and saves these notes to a file. This file is later used by programs like munin-nagios (to warn nagios) and munin-html (to incorporate them in the web display). it's giving "writes the notes so everyone else can read them" 💖

If a service has fields with "warning" or "critical"-options (e.g. "load.warning 10"), and the munin-server configuration file contains the necessary configuration options, munin-limits will check its value. so yes, she does actually read your config. main character energy ⭐

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🦋 FILES 🦋

/etc/munin/munin.conf
/var/lib/munin/*
/var/run/munin/*

these are the spots she hangs out in, bestie 🍓

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💜 VERSION 💜

This is munin-limits version 2.0.78 🎀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Knut Haugen, Audun Ytterdal and Jimmy Olsen. legends, fr fr 🫶

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💀 BUGS 💀

munin-limits does, as of now, not check the syntax of the configuration file. so like, she will not catch your typos, you have to be your own editor on that one 😭

Please report other bugs in the bug tracker at <http://munin-monitoring.org/>. do it, they wanna hear from you 🐛

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🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Knut Haugen, Audun Ytterdal, and Jimmy Olsen / Linpro AS.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program is released under the GNU General Public License. slay, legally speaking 💅

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

For information on configuration options, please refer to the man page for munin.conf.

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ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and check those limits 💖

and a lil sign-off: this page is from version 2.0.78, dated 2026-09-30, so if you're reading this way in the future, hi, hope you're thriving 🌈✨