I was able to work around it. If anyone else comes across this, you can just send your alerts to your local user account and use procmail to filter out the "Success" messages while forwarding on the actual alerts.
Thanks, -Mark -----Original Message----- From: monit-general <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lutz Mader Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 15:17 To: This is the general mailing list for monit <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: No alert on success Hello Mark, you can use the following alert settings only, see https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmmonit.com%2Fmonit%2Fdocumentation%2Fmonit.html%23Setting-an-alert-recipient&data=04%7C01%7Cmark.faine%40nasa.gov%7C5975ff5462b3457d9ddb08d8b8d1aa73%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C637462557940930362%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=OjBdOuRqNvLA5j3V%2B5Ej8do%2FpXO%2FVdDz2aTfzOR1RZU%3D&reserved=0 Unfortunately, there is no option to disable the "Failure" or the "Success", "Changed" state in Monit itself. > Can I disable success alerts? I only care about if it's still down. I have > googled for this but can't seem to find anything on it. But you can do this in M/Monit in a rule, that is defined for the received warnings are sent by email. With regards, Lutz
