consul-alerts doesnt start when using --watch-checks

[scalp42]

Hi @darkcrux

Running the following:

/usr/local/bin/consul-alerts start --alert-addr=localhost:9500 --consul-addr=localhost:8500 --consul-dc=dc1 --watch-checks --watch-events

INFO[0000] Checking consul agent connection...
INFO[0000] Consul ACL Token: ""
INFO[0000] Consul Alerts daemon started
INFO[0000] Consul Alerts Host: gz-consul-scalp-vagrant-vbox-1
INFO[0000] Consul Agent: localhost:8500
INFO[0000] Consul Datacenter: vagrant
INFO[0000] Running for leader election...
INFO[0000] consul-alert daemon is not running.
Error executing handler: exit status 2
INFO[0000] Shutting down watcher --> Exit Code:  1
root@gz-consul-scalp-vagrant-vbox-1:/etc/consul# INFO[0000] consul-alert daemon is not running.
Error executing handler: exit status 2

root@gz-consul-scalp-vagrant-vbox-1:/etc/consul#

Any idea ? If I remove --watch-checks --watch-events it works fine:

INFO[0000] Checking consul agent connection...
INFO[0000] Consul ACL Token: ""
INFO[0000] Consul Alerts daemon started
INFO[0000] Consul Alerts Host: gz-consul-scalp-vagrant-vbox-1
INFO[0000] Consul Agent: localhost:8500
INFO[0000] Consul Datacenter: vagrant
INFO[0000] Running for leader election...

Thanks in advance!

[darkcrux]

Hi @scalp42

The error your having means that the consul-alerts HTTP API is not responding and the watchers can't send any data of check/event changes for processing. It may be possible that either consul is down or that there's a bug when starting consul-alerts service.

without the --watch-checks and --watch-events args, consul-alerts will just stand by ready to process data passed by consul watch. The watcher needs to be manually ran and pointed to consul-alerts.

can you try binding --alert-addr to a different address? Try --alert-addr=0.0.0.0:9500 or --alert-addr=127.0.0.1:9500, maybe it's not working well with localhost.

[scalp42]

Unfortunately no dice @darkcrux

root@gz-consul-scalp-vagrant-vbox-1:/etc/consul# /usr/local/bin/consul-alerts start --alert-addr=33.33.33.11:9501 --consul-addr=127.0.0.1:8500 --consul-dc=vagrant --watch-checks --watch-events
INFO[0000] Checking consul agent connection...
INFO[0000] Consul ACL Token: ""
INFO[0000] Consul Alerts daemon started
INFO[0000] Consul Alerts Host: gz-consul-scalp-vagrant-vbox-1
INFO[0000] Consul Agent: 127.0.0.1:8500
INFO[0000] Consul Datacenter: vagrant
INFO[0000] Running for leader election...
INFO[0000] consul-alert daemon is not running.
Error executing handler: exit status 2
INFO[0000] Shutting down watcher --> Exit Code:  1
root@gz-consul-scalp-vagrant-vbox-1:/etc/consul# INFO[0000] consul-alert daemon is not running.
Error executing handler: exit status 2
^C
root@gz-consul-scalp-vagrant-vbox-1:/etc/consul#

[darkcrux]

sorry took a while to get back at this. Finally got time to work on this again, Turns out that the watchers are not using the --alert-addr parameter. Just fixed this.