Add an unique Identifier per alert

[Julian Retzbach]

Hi all,

While sending alerts and recovery messages (success states) via mail or to an API using curl, there is no assignment between alerts and recoveries.

A unique identifier within an alert message could do the trick. This alert message ID could be stored in an environment variable f.e. $MONIT_ALERT_ID. Based on this ID you could use this to get the assignment between the alert and the recovery.

Is it possible to create such a functionality?

[Lutz Mader]

Hello Julian,
a nice idea, to get a useful event id I use the data from the “Event_Table” (from event.c) to get an id. An environment variable to get this id is a good idea and more easy.

I use the “MONIT_EVENT” and a list to use the id from “Event_Table” in my scripts.

A suggestion only,
Lutz

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[Lutz Mader]

Hello Julian,
have a look to the monit archive file monit-5.28.0-suse12eventid-x64.tar.gz on https://bitbucket.org/lutzmad/monit/downloads/

This is a test version only.
I added my code to get the internal used event id (in a textual format) in the new environment variable MONIT_EVENT_ID to monit 5.28.0.
The MONIT_EVENT_ID is a textual form of the internal used event id, I use this event id in the past in addition to the service name and the system name to correlate the error and the succeed events.

You can do some more/additional tests.
I will make a pull request as soon as possible.

With regards,
Lutz

[Lutz Mader]

p.s.
For a list of the used ids, the values from the first column are used, see https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#Setting-an-event-filter

[Lutz Mader]

I removed my code changes, I got no feedback, this seems not the solution Julian is interesting in.

With regards,
Lutz