Feature Request: Health Check Backoff

[S]

We had a situation a while ago where a deployment caused a client stampede, causing multiple servers to stop responding to health checks while they serviced clients, which caused monit to put them in a reboot loop.

While we are now writing more forgiving health checks, something like exponential or linear backoff on checks or restarts would be quite useful, with parameters for min/max period.

[Tildeslash]

Hello, you can limit the number of restarts this way: https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#SERVICE-RESTART-LIMIT

[S]

Hey, thanks for the reply. I'm aware of this option (and we use it now), just thinking that backoff would be a more graceful way to do it, such that monitoring doesn't get completely shut off (in case the failure was due to, say, a local or remote dependency).

[Tildeslash]

yes, we agree, a backoff would be useful, may add it in the future