Diagnostic Recipe and Alerts for Memcached

On an ongoing basis (using ELK, Loglogic, Splunk, or other monitoring tools), you can keep track of the health of the Memcached pools.
Metric Field Name / Computation Notes
Hit rate get_hits/(get_hits+get_misses) The computed ratio should be nearly equal to 1 at that collection time.
Fill ratio/percent bytes/limit_maxbytes Low water mark 85%; High water mark 90%.