Would like to delay when Nagios sets a service to Critical

[caf_infra]

Hi,

I was wondering if it’s possible to configure the following behaviour into Nagios.
We currently monitor a bunch of Windows services on some servers in our development environment. We want a fairly granular log of the service state for troubleshooting purposes, but we only want Nagios to mark it as a problem if it’s been down for a significant period of time so that the system doesn’t report a fault every time the service gets bounced due to testing.

i.e.
1. It checks and logs the service state every 5 minutes
2. Services only flip to critical after they’ve been down for a continuous hour rather than the first time it checks and they’re down.

Thanks,
Justine

[lmiltchev]

You could use:

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check_interval			5
retry_interval			1
max_check_attempts		60

This way, your host/service will be checked every 5 min. If it goes to soft "non-ok" state, it will be checked every minute up to 60 times, before goes to hard "non-ok" state. There is one caveat though - it you have too many hosts/services that fail at the same time, you will have many checks happening every minute for 1 hour. This can dramatically increase the load on your system.