1. 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 net by a previous potential event; and responsive to a second positive determination, disregarding the potential event.