[hobbit] DURATION in alerts

[Henrik Stoerner]

In <48BDBD4F.8020807 at shadowsoft.com> jon at shadowsoft.com (Jon Boede) writes:

>I have an alerts file where hobbit sends out an alert to a ever-widening 
>group of people based on DURATION... the longer the un-ack'd duration, 
>the more excited it gets.

>The problem comes in when something goes YELLOW for a while and then 
>goes RED.  All the time it spent at YELLOW is included in the DURATION 
>even through I have a COLOR=red explicitly given in the config file.

>Is there a way to specify the duration as the time something has been 
>RED as opposed to NOT-GREEN?


Unfortunately not.

It's tricky, because a lot of people would also argue that if a status
has been red for 10 hours, dips to yellow for 5 minutes and then goes 
back to red, then those few minutes of yellow should not be enough to
reset the duration counter.

Of course, this only applies for a status that can go yellow (e.g.
cpu- or disk-utilisation) - network tests usually don't have this
issue.


Henrik