How to send continuous Slack alerts?

[mani9223-oss]

@TwiN Is it possible to send continuous Slack alerts for failures? Right now it is sending an alert one time and sends another one only after it's resolved. It would be good to continuously send alerts for failures until its resolved.

Your thoughts, please...

[TwiN]

That's not currently possible, and it's by design:

gatus/watchdog/alerting.go

Lines 32 to 37 in 829a9c2

	if endpointAlert.Triggered {
	if debug {
	log.Printf("[watchdog][handleAlertsToTrigger] Alert for endpoint=%s with description='%s' has already been TRIGGERED, skipping", endpoint.Name, endpointAlert.GetDescription())
	}
	continue
	}

The reason behind this choice is that spam tends to lead to people ignoring alerts, and I built Gatus in a way that minimizes the number of alert to keep them meaningful.

That being said, if that's a feature you're interested in, I wouldn't be against adding something like alert.trigger-repeatedly.