Yes, they are old school.
But they also work.
Do not ever try to take my email alerts away.
Now, if you want to decommission the junk that's causing the email alerts to fire off constantly, that's totally cool with me, man. But its replacement best have some email alerts with it.
I'm battling this at the moment. Nagios was set up and then not maintained. So SPAM alert every now and then. Plus there's stuff in there which doesnt need to be monitored at all, being monitored as P1 critical systems. Really bad.
What's the alternative? I guess automated SMS (at 3am) is a good avenue to take. I'd like to configure this to go to only the people that set up our nagios :XD:
I do not want automated SMS. One day, I will leave or retire from my current firm. I do not want to get a text at 3am because a system I'll never see again is down.
To that point, I don't want that text for a system I don't have any contact with sending me alerts because I'm in a catch-all text alert group.
Emails? I can skip over them pretty quick. Texts? That beep that goes with them carries some urgency, gotta check right away... aaaaand... it's a false alarm.
:problem?:
NOT WANT