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Figured it out. The service was using a template that had 4 retries. The nature of a log event is it comes once but typically isn't present if the plugin does a retry. Thus the alert was going into a SOFT state and then being cleared. I created a new template for these types of checks with no retrie...

I am new to Nagios but I'm unable to get even basic notifications to work I have setup a basic log monitor using check_logfiles. It works successfully and when a line that matches is logged the service goes into alert. When the service is re-checked 1 minute later it goes out of alert. The alert log...