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## Prerequisites

	EnvSpeed = "MINIO_SCANNER_SPEED"

	IdleSpeed    = "idle_speed"
	EnvIdleSpeed = "MINIO_SCANNER_IDLE_SPEED"

	ExcessVersions    = "alert_excess_versions"
	EnvExcessVersions = "MINIO_SCANNER_ALERT_EXCESS_VERSIONS"

	ExcessFolders    = "alert_excess_folders"
	EnvExcessFolders = "MINIO_SCANNER_ALERT_EXCESS_FOLDERS"

	// All below are deprecated in October 2022 and
	// replaced them with a single speed parameter
	Delay            = "delay"

			Type:        "string",
		},
		config.HelpKV{
			Key:         ExcessVersions,
			Description: `alert per object beyond this many versions` + defaultHelpPostfix(ExcessVersions),
			Optional:    true,
			Type:        "int",
		},
		config.HelpKV{
			Key:         ExcessFolders,
			Description: `alert beyond this many sub-folders per folder in an erasure set` + defaultHelpPostfix(ExcessFolders),
			Optional:    true,

To verify the above sample alert follow below steps

1. Start a distributed MinIO instance (4 nodes setup)
2. Start Prometheus server and AlertManager
3. Bring down couple of MinIO instances to bring down the Erasure Set tolerance to -1 and verify the same with `mc admin prometheus metrics ALIAS | grep minio_cluster_health_erasure_set_status`