[GH-ISSUE #1171] [Feature Request] differentiate between “down” and “grace period reached” alerts #805

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opened 2026-02-25 23:43:39 +03:00 by kerem · 3 comments

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Originally created by @sebguilbaud on GitHub (Jun 4, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/issues/1171

in the case of high-frequency job monitoring (execution every minute), we're more interested in the grace period expiring, rather than an error, knowing that the job will be restarted in the next minute, it would be useful to have two levels of notification in healthchecks

Originally created by @sebguilbaud on GitHub (Jun 4, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/issues/1171 in the case of high-frequency job monitoring (execution every minute), we're more interested in the grace period expiring, rather than an error, knowing that the job will be restarted in the next minute, it would be useful to have two levels of notification in healthchecks

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@cuu508 commented on GitHub (Jun 4, 2025):

Notifications via most channels do differentiate between the two.

For example, Slack notification when grace time has run out:

And when the failure signal has been received:

@cuu508 commented on GitHub (Jun 4, 2025): Notifications via most channels do differentiate between the two. For example, Slack notification when grace time has run out: ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4530c44d-8215-45e5-8451-8ce98567b2b5) And when the failure signal has been received: ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4a909713-1f78-490a-abbe-f970674900c6)

kerem commented

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@sebguilbaud commented on GitHub (Jun 4, 2025):

sorry I wasn't specific enough, I'd like to be able to choose the types of notifications to send, like for example disabling notifications on fail but leaving them on grace time exceeded

@sebguilbaud commented on GitHub (Jun 4, 2025): sorry I wasn't specific enough, I'd like to be able to choose the types of notifications to send, like for example disabling notifications on fail but leaving them on grace time exceeded

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@cuu508 commented on GitHub (Jun 4, 2025):

Ah, I see. This would be a niche feature, but would add complexity to the UI and the code, and to user's mental model of how the system works. I'm currently not planning to work on this, but a workaround you could consider would be to not send the /fail signals to Healthchecks at all. On success, report success. On failure, either report nothing or use the log endpoint.

@cuu508 commented on GitHub (Jun 4, 2025): Ah, I see. This would be a niche feature, but would add complexity to the UI and the code, and to user's mental model of how the system works. I'm currently not planning to work on this, but a workaround you could consider would be to not send the /fail signals to Healthchecks at all. On success, report success. On failure, either report nothing or use the [log](https://healthchecks.io/docs/http_api/#log-uuid) endpoint.