diff --git a/plugins/sphinx/sphindex_ b/plugins/sphinx/sphindex_
index 025a6762..5cb775dd 100755
--- a/plugins/sphinx/sphindex_
+++ b/plugins/sphinx/sphindex_
@@ -40,15 +40,23 @@ indexName = progName[progName.find("_")+1:]
 if len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1] == "autoconf":
     print "yes"
 elif len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1] == "config":
-    print "graph_title Sphinx index %s stats"%indexName
+    warning = "0:"
+    critical = "0:"
+    if "warning" in os.environ and os.environ["warning"] != None:
+        warning = os.environ["warning"]
+    if "critical" in os.environ and os.environ["critical"] != None:
+        critical = os.environ["critical"]
+
+    print "graph_title Sphinx index %s stats" % indexName
     print "graph_vlabel docs count"
     print "graph_category search"
-
+    print "documents_count.warning %s" % warning
+    print "documents_count.critical %s" % critical
     print "documents_count.label Documents count in index"
     print "graph_args --base 1000 -l 0"
 else:
     if "server" in os.environ and os.environ["server"] != None:
-        server = os.environ["server"] 
+        server = os.environ["server"]
     else:
         server =  "localhost"
 
@@ -66,4 +74,4 @@ else:
     result = client.Query("", indexName)
     docCount = result["total_found"]
 
-    print "documents_count.value %d"%docCount
+    print "documents_count.value %d" % docCount