Alerting granularity

[Randy Ramsdell]

Hi,

I have been trying to configure alerting for our 24/7 oncall person. One 
issue I do not seem to stop is the initial alert. Monit alerts as soon 
as the service fails which I do not want. I only want monit to alert if 
the service fails for a specific time. We use an exec if failed but need 
to know when the exec is unable to restart the service for a specified 
time period.

I have tried almost every form of alerting but can't solve the "not" 
alert on initial fail.

Is is possible to alert the way we need?


Example: This host runs the same service but on diff ports then we rotor 
with load balancer.



check host blah blah

alert address@hidden

if failed host localhost port 81 send "POST / HTTP/1.15 blah blah" 
expect "ZP4" then exec "$RUNSCRIPT"
if failed host localhost port 82 send "POST / HTTP/1.15 blah blah" 
expect "ZP4" then exec "$RUNSCRIPT"
if failed host localhost port 83 send "POST / HTTP/1.15 blah blah" 
expect "ZP4" then exec "$RUNSCRIPT"
if failed host localhost port 84 send "POST / HTTP/1.15 blah blah" 
expect "ZP4" then exec "$RUNSCRIPT"