We usually throttle them at the source like https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka/blob/dev/sandbox/lua/filters/http_status.lua#L85 but there is nothing to prevent you from adding global throttling or aggregation in the alert encoder (by host, plugin, application... whatever)
Trink ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Klaus Post" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 6:15:39 AM > Subject: [heka] Throttling email alerts > Hi! > I have been looking all through the documentation and source code to see if I > could find a way to throttle email sending. > I have a simple setup, where I have a simple matcher for severity <= 3 like > this: > [RstEncoder] > [ErrorAlert] > type = "SmtpOutput" > message_matcher = "Severity <= 3" > send_from = " [email protected] " > send_to = [" [email protected] "] > auth = "none" > host = " xxx.com:25 " > encoder = "RstEncoder" > However, there is the issue that if something goes wrong, various subsystems > like syslog, individual applications start spewing out errors at a steady > rate, often resulting in thousands of mails being sent. > Is there a way to limit the number of emails with configuration or does > anyone have a lua script that can do this? > Also, thanks for the great work on heka! > Regards, Klaus Post > http://www.klauspost.com > _______________________________________________ > Heka mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/heka
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