Avoid alert on log rotation

[Guillaume François]

Hello,

Everyday we got an "non-exist" then "exist" alert when the process is shutdown then started for log rotation purpose.

We would like to NOT receive the email linked to this kind of behavior but still get the email when the process is really down for some time.

We would like something like

check process myprocess with pidfile /var/run/myprocesspid.pid
        start program = "/usr/sbin/service myprocess start"
        stop program  = "/usr/sbin/service myprocess stop"
        if failed port 5555 protocol tcp for 3 cycles then restart
        if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

wanted ->        alert on {exist, non-exist} only if 5 event in 5 cycles.

can be interpreted as -> only send alert for event 'exist' and event 'non-exist' if alert is triggerred 5 time in the last 5 cycles

We saw we can change the 'alert/noalert' rule for some 'email/event' but we cannot get a "conditional" rules for theses.

Best Regards,

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