Re: contignuous alert supression

[Martin Pala]

Igor Grabin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:47:01PM +0100, Martin Pala wrote:
>
> > ... then it could be better to eliminate false alerts, which makes 95% 
> > of your messages volume.
>
> it's on the monit todo - alert only on repeated failures. 0% done. :-)

... if you want to, you can give it a stab ;)

> meanwhile, a suggestion:
> if .... then [repeated] alert
> ?

Here is an example: in our environment we have ca. 120 servers.

Provided there will be false alerts (let's say similarly to your example 
- 20 per server per day => 20 * 2 * 120 = 4800 false messages), trying 
to override the volume of false alerts will be overkill. The conclusion 
is as suggested - eliminate false alerts (otherwise the additional 
repeated messages will make the problem even worser).

As i explained, i think current monit behavior is appropriate and 
possible to use.

My vote for repeated alerts feature (at least in this form) is -1.

Martin