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VMware ALB - Email Alerts Are Slooooow

aceravalo — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:41:55 GMT

Hi, I am trying to set up some email alerting on my ALB appliances. I have created some custom alert configs, that trip when a pool member down event occurs. The alert works fine, but it takes around 2 minutes for it to show up under "all alerts" once it shows up under there then I get an email pretty quickly. I need these alerts to be "real time" not 2 minutes after they occur. Any ideas/thoughts on what I have misconfigured?

Thank you,

Tony

Re: VMware ALB - Email Alerts Are Slooooow

EvertAM — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 23:26:22 GMT

Have you checked the health monitor to make sure it triggers instantly? Generally, you want some leniency to make sure you don't generate false alerts.

Re: VMware ALB - Email Alerts Are Slooooow

aceravalo — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:21:10 GMT

Well currently I'm just going in and marking a pool member as "disabled/down", so I'm not even using the health check to mark it as down. That event shows up under Operations/Events/All Events instantly, however its around 2 minutes before I receive an email telling me that the backend server is down. Also coincidentally , it also takes about 2 minutes before I receive a syslog event in Splunk that the backend server is down. I feel like this alert should happen instantly.

Thank you,

Tony

Re: VMware ALB - Email Alerts Are Slooooow

EvertAM — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:25:37 GMT

Gotcha. Only other config item I can think of is that the alert itself might be set for "Rolling window" instead of instance. It might be worth a check, my personal next stap would be to contact support and ask them