Period Types

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Proposal for Thresholds

Threshold have the following types:

• dateperiod
• int

dateperiod defines the period in which the metric should be fulfilled. It can have a period type of calendar or sliding. calendar defines a calendar month/year. sliding defines a period that starts with a given action.
Samples:

  period type: calendar # start always the first of January, e.g. 10 hours of security training within a calendar year
  period: 1y

  period type: sliding # start whenever a datapoint is collected, e.g. read confirmation valid for 1y after last read
  period: 1y

int defines the value that should be reached with min value and max value.