On 2022-11-19 Sa 09:33, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> On 11/19/22 14:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> On 2022-11-19 Sa 05:34, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>>>> I wonder if it'd make sense to have some simple & optional alerting
>>>> based on how long ago the machine reported the last result. Send e-mail
>>>> if there was no report for a month or so would be enough.
>>> This has been part of the buildfarm for a very long time. See the alerts
>>> section of the config file.
>> I don't think alerting from the client would catch those cases, but
>> maybe it's a rare issue and I'm overthinking it.
> Those alerts are sent by the buildfarm server, not the client.
>
> That has a failure mode of its own: if an animal goes down hard,
> the server is left with its last-seen alert setup. The only
> way to not get nagged permanently is to ask Andrew to intervene
> manually. (Ask me how I know.)
>
>
True for now. The next release will have a utility command to
disable/enable alerts. The required server changes have already been made.
cheers
andrew
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