Comments on: Munin alert email notification

By: Sysadmin

Sysadmin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:17:17 +0000

After adding the next line in munin.conf after the appropriate node decalaration

df._var_spool_samba.warning 96

I get the following email:

WARNINGs: /var/spool/samba is 95.16 (outside range [:92]).
UNKNOWNs: is unknown
OKs: /dev/shm is 0.00, /boot is 20.01, / is 1.46.

Before this munin.conf editing emails looked like this:

WARNINGs: /var/spool/samba is 95.16 (outside range [:92]).
OKs: /dev/shm is 0.00, /boot is 20.01, / is 1.46.

So, obviosly, config-file is not parsing correctly casuing “UNKNOWNs” line to appeare. Can someone tell me the reason of this?

I use munin version 1.4.5

By: Sergio

Sergio — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:18:22 +0000

I am new to munin and wondered how to fit these instructions to receive an alert disk consumption

By: James

James — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:12:03 +0000

Hi,

I am using munin 1.4.4 and have the problem where Munin is sending email alerts every 5 minutes once the threshold is breached. Is there any way around this? I only want 1 email when the threshold is breached and 1 email when the metric goes back within the threshold.

Thank you so much in advance for your help. Getting so many emails is killing me!

James

By: AiBee

AiBee — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:24:42 +0000

One question. I have Ubuntu 9.10 server with the most updated version of munin for these release, which is 1.2.6

I setup mail notification as you described in you blog post. User ‘munin’ has required rights to send mail via ‘mail’. Munin sees that there is a critical value, but no email is sent at all.

Maybe yo know where could be the problem? Is this some kind of old version bug?

Regards,
AiBee

By: Juan Giordana

Juan Giordana — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:43:50 +0000

Thanks a lot for this howto :)

By: Tony Copeland

Tony Copeland — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:31:52 +0000

My munin install v1.4.2 was emailing every five minutes and I found this active ticket.

http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ticket/795

It seems to fix my issue of continously getting the OKs emailed to me.

Thanks,
-Tony

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:22:40 +0000

Thanks! Works great!

By: Tom Harrison

Tom Harrison — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:04:08 +0000

A reply to Alexy — I have found that following this example or other documentation, Munin sends an alert the first time a threshold is breached, and another when the threshold is back within limits (not once every five minutes).

By: Harald Korneliussen

Harald Korneliussen — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:19:20 +0000

The “contacts me” line causes munin-limits to spit out a lot of complaints about uninitialized values. When I remove it it appears to be fine.
Hmmm, there really should be some syntax-checking on munin.conf to catch this sort of thing.

By: Alexey

Alexey — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:52:40 +0000

With this configuration munin sends alerts for df every 5 minutes. How can I avoid that behavior? I.e. send only alert when state changes to warn or crit and skip all other similar alerts until state will change again (back to Ok or warn->crit or crit->warn etc)?