How to disable Monit instance start/stop alerts?

Question

Monit sends an alert every time the monit daemon is stopped or started. This is obnoxious and not useful information.

According to the docs, I set:

set alert user@mycompany.com but not on { instance }

...which should send alerts to that e-mail, unless they are in the "instance" category, which is defined as starts/stops.

However, I still get alerts generated. This is super annoying. Clearly I must be missing something.

We're running Monit 5.2.4

Answer 1

Simply tell it to knock it off after a certain number of retries in N time period according to these examples.

Answer 2

I was unable to fix this within monit and had to build a layer of processing on the monit e-mail to filter out these monit instance notifications before delivery, by intercepting them.

We're using pager duty to accumulate and dispatch notices from monit and several other systems, so in this case I added a filtering rule on the Monit service using a subject based regex to filter out monit instance notice e-mails.

Answer 3

I'm using Monit version 5.2.5 and using the following has stopped monit alerts coming through

set alert example@gmail.com not {instance}