#29: Automatically reload on configuration file update

alerting/alert/alert.go

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+package alert
+
+// Alert is the service's alert configuration
+type Alert struct {
+	// Type of alert (required)
+	Type Type `yaml:"type"`
+
+	// Enabled defines whether or not the alert is enabled
+	//
+	// This is a pointer, because it is populated by YAML and we need to know whether it was explicitly set to a value
+	// or not for provider.ParseWithDefaultAlert to work.
+	Enabled *bool `yaml:"enabled"`
+
+	// FailureThreshold is the number of failures in a row needed before triggering the alert
+	FailureThreshold int `yaml:"failure-threshold"`
+
+	// Description of the alert. Will be included in the alert sent.
+	//
+	// This is a pointer, because it is populated by YAML and we need to know whether it was explicitly set to a value
+	// or not for provider.ParseWithDefaultAlert to work.
+	Description *string `yaml:"description"`
+
+	// SendOnResolved defines whether to send a second notification when the issue has been resolved
+	//
+	// This is a pointer, because it is populated by YAML and we need to know whether it was explicitly set to a value
+	// or not for provider.ParseWithDefaultAlert to work. Use Alert.IsSendingOnResolved() for a non-pointer
+	SendOnResolved *bool `yaml:"send-on-resolved"`
+
+	// SuccessThreshold defines how many successful executions must happen in a row before an ongoing incident is marked as resolved
+	SuccessThreshold int `yaml:"success-threshold"`
+
+	// ResolveKey is an optional field that is used by some providers (i.e. PagerDuty's dedup_key) to resolve
+	// ongoing/triggered incidents
+	ResolveKey string
+
+	// Triggered is used to determine whether an alert has been triggered. When an alert is resolved, this value
+	// should be set back to false. It is used to prevent the same alert from going out twice.
+	//
+	// This value should only be modified if the provider.AlertProvider's Send function does not return an error for an
+	// alert that hasn't been triggered yet. This doubles as a lazy retry. The reason why this behavior isn't also
+	// applied for alerts that are already triggered and has become "healthy" again is to prevent a case where, for
+	// some reason, the alert provider always returns errors when trying to send the resolved notification
+	// (SendOnResolved).
+	Triggered bool
+}
+
+// GetDescription retrieves the description of the alert
+func (alert Alert) GetDescription() string {
+	if alert.Description == nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return *alert.Description
+}
+
+// IsEnabled returns whether an alert is enabled or not
+func (alert Alert) IsEnabled() bool {
+	if alert.Enabled == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	return *alert.Enabled
+}
+
+// IsSendingOnResolved returns whether an alert is sending on resolve or not
+func (alert Alert) IsSendingOnResolved() bool {
+	if alert.SendOnResolved == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	return *alert.SendOnResolved
+}