To give an example of something that happened today and why I ask; One of the servers we are monitoring we have an alert check for the fans being below the sensor threshold something timed out on the connection and caused the sensor values to all drop to 0 and then showed the device timed out as well. We got about 20 emails about the sensors both about the alert and the recovery. I did go ahead and add a alert delay to the checker so that would at least fix that for now but maybe grouping the alerts per host if its happening all at the same time would reduce the noise of the alerts and provide a better way to know that something on that host itself might be an issue.
From: Adam Armstrong via observium observium@lists.observium.org Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2022 8:55 AM To: Ryan, Spencer J. via observium observium@lists.observium.org Cc: Adam Armstrong adama@observium.org Subject: {EXT}[Observium] Re: Group Email Alerts
There's not really a way to "group" alerts. It could potentially be done, but not with our current alert sending code.
If you frequently get situations where you get multiple alerts all at once, being annoyed by those alerts should serve as motivation to fix the problem, no? :D
adam.
Ryan, Spencer J. via observium wrote on 2022-11-23 13:42:
How are your alert checkers built?
While we have asked for alert dependencies forever (and may never get it) I don't get any individual alarms for sensors when a device is offline.
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Is there a way to group email alerts so there is not an email alert for every sensor that might go down at the same time? For example multiple fans on a server might show as an alert if the device itself is not responding
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