Hey,
I use monit to monitor the health of a bunch of docker containers that
sometimes die/become unhealthy for various reasons, when they are
configured to be restarted by monit, which most of the time fixes the issue.
I'd like to only be notified by monit when the restart does not fix the
problem and the container is still unhealthy. I thought to configure
something like
CHECK PROGRAM MyContainer PATH /bin/check_container my_container
if status != 0 for 5 cycles then restart
if status != 0 for 10 cycles then alert
...
in the hope that I would only get notified when the script returns a
failure for 10 cycles. However, I also get a notification after five
cycles, usually followed by one immediately after, telling me that
everything is good again.
How can I configure monit in a way to not get notified in such a case?
One way I came up with was to create to separate rules, one to restart
only that uses noalert to entirely supress alerts, and another one to
alert. But that seems like overkill.
Thanks for your help, best,
Tobias
PS: My request is the same as in this thread
<https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/monit-general/2014-05/msg00016.html>
but since a) the solution there does not work for me as I generally
don't have an execution failure and b) it is more than 10 years old, I
thought to rather create a new thread.
