Prevention of event flooding

A method for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, the method comprising:

• responsive to receiving monitored activity data, analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event;
• responsive to determining a potential event, identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values;
• responsive to a positive determination, determining if the met threshold value, is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event;
• and
• responsive to a second positive determination, disregarding the potential event.

A computer program comprising computer program code to, when loaded into a computer system and executed:

• responsive to receiving, by an analysis component, monitored activity data, an analysis component for analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event;
• responsive to determining a potential event, an analysis component identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values;
• responsive to a positive determination, an analysis component for determining if the met threshold value is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event;
• and
• responsive to a second positive determination, a disregard component for disregarding the potential event.