Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > On 11/19/22 14:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> On 2022-11-19 Sa 05:34, Tomas Vondra wrote: >>> I wonder if it'd make sense to have some simple & optional alerting >>> based on how long ago the machine reported the last result. Send e-mail >>> if there was no report for a month or so would be enough.
>> This has been part of the buildfarm for a very long time. See the alerts >> section of the config file. > I don't think alerting from the client would catch those cases, but > maybe it's a rare issue and I'm overthinking it. Those alerts are sent by the buildfarm server, not the client. That has a failure mode of its own: if an animal goes down hard, the server is left with its last-seen alert setup. The only way to not get nagged permanently is to ask Andrew to intervene manually. (Ask me how I know.) regards, tom lane