Hello,
There are many ways how to write the regular expression, did you try something
like this?:
if match '[Ee][Rr][Rr][Oo][Rr]' then alert
Best regards,
The M/Monit team
> On 8. 4. 2025, at 18:08, Ron Kelley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I am trying to do a case-insensitive match for the words “error” and “out of
> memory” on our DB servers and am not having much luck. I saw a few threads
> from +5yrs ago but the suggestions don’t seem to work. Also, I looked over
> the monit manual and the regex(7) man page but I am still not able to get a
> simple match working. One thread suggests to modify the source code and
> recompile, but that does not seem to help (I downloaded and compiled monit
> version 5.34.4) .
>
> Specifically, the syntax: "if match '(?i)error' then alert” throws the error:
> "Regex parsing error: Invalid preceding regular expression ''(?i)error’’
>
>
> Any hints for an easy-to-use case-insensitive match string?
>
> Thanks.
