Indeed, this is a much harder problem to solve than people think. It relies on delaying notifications, which is usually not a good idea, and would then likely only work on a per-contact basis.
It’s also only really relevant to email, since as Tom says most other transports aren’t really compatible with the idea of alert batching.
For complex alert tracking on large networks I’d always recommend using an external alert management platform like VictorOps or PagerDuty. They’ll let you do a lot more.
Adam.
From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> On Behalf Of Tom Laermans via observium
Sent: 02 June 2020 20:49
To: observium@observium.org
Cc: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium Feature Request - Summarizations for Alert Emails
Hi Anthony,
There is no such 'state' in Observium at this point; it'd also have to be a special case specific for e-mail I think, because other alerting "transports" (= what does the alerting in Observium) can't fit (SMS), parse (Shellscript exec) or don't want to (PagerDuty, VictorOps) have such things summarized.
So just as to why that won't be a simple implementation in 5 minutes. But not saying it can't be done. ;-)
Tom
On 6/2/2020 8:09 PM, Pisano, Anthony D. via observium wrote: