I'm getting a RECOVER alert every 5 minutes on the same host.  I'm on the latest Observium subscription version.  Although I am seeing all sorts of weirdness on my install.  Not sure if this related to your post Daniel.

Leo

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> on behalf of Daniel Horth <dan@horth.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 5:17 PM
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert checker sending email notifications every        polling round

Nope, I inherited this setup so have altered nothing :)

But - checking config.php there is no $config['alerts']['interval’] setting - which is surely not a good thing.

Changing now to see if that helps.

 On 21 Jul 2016, at 10:09 AM, Michael <obslist@smarsz.com> wrote:

 Have you
altered the default value in config.php for the following

 $config['alerts']['interval'] = 86400;

 That is the value for time between resending an alert notification if there is no status change.   Default is 24hr.

 Michael

 On 21 July 2016 10:01:19 am AEST, Daniel Horth <dan@horth.com.au> wrote:
 The spam from Observium is ongoing. :(

 It’s not just this alert checker - any failed one causes repeated
 notifications

 Can someone confirm my assumption that an alert notification should
 only be sent when the alert status changes - not each time the polling
 cycle runs.

 In the mean time I’m going to have a dig through the code to work out
 what is triggering the notifications and why the spam.

 Thanks

 On 19 Jul 2016, at 5:38 PM, Daniel Horth <dan@horth.com.au> wrote:

 If it helps I can send sample DB data for that device_id when back at
 work tomorrow

 On 19 Jul 2016, at 5:33 PM, Daniel Horth <dan@horth.com.au
 <mailto:dan@horth.com.au>> wrote:

 yes - has a timestamp in it

 Interface shows last alerted time also, e.g.:

 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ldmradc2plzsekd/Screenshot%202016-07-19%2010.43.20.png?dl=0
 <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ldmradc2plzsekd/Screenshot%202016-07-19%2010.43.20.png?dl=0>

 On 19 Jul 2016, at 4:54 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org
 <mailto:adama@memetic.org>> wrote:

 Is the last_alerted field set in the database?

 Adam.

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 On 19 Jul 2016, at 02:36, Daniel Horth <dan@horth.com.au
 <mailto:dan@horth.com.au>> wrote:
 Hi all

 I have an odd alerting issue where I am
receiving email alerts
 about a failed check each time a polling interval passes.

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