The alerting system is state based, so an alert only exists for as long as the alert conditions are met. If it isn't recovering when the alert conditions are no longer met, probably it wasn't triggered by the alert conditions you think it was.
You can check the currently involved alert conditions on the alert entry's page (the cog button on the right hand side of an entry on an alert table)
adam.
------ Original Message ------ From: mal@platinumnetworks.com.au To: "'Observium'" observium@observium.org Sent: 2018-03-28 06:51:13 Subject: [Observium] Clearing Alerts
Hi all – I have created my very first alert checker and can see that it creates and alert according to the checker criteria.
My checker looks for speed on a port and alerts if ge 100M.
From what I can see, once that alert has been created I do not have the ability to ‘clear’ the alert so even if the port speed drops below 100M the alert remains in failed state and if the checker criteria are met again a new alert is not created.
My use case is that I need to monitor the bandwidth utilisation on this specific port on an ongoing basis and be alerted each time the speed exceeds say 100M.
Appreciate any pointers to show me where I am going wrong…
Cheers
Mal