`nixos-upgrade.service`: send notification on failure

oysteikt commented

2026-06-21 18:15:04 +02:00

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webhooks to a matrix room or via sendmail maybe, it's not extremely important but would be nice to know.

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felixalb commented

2026-06-22 17:30:36 +02:00

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When we talked about this before, we found that one obvious solution is to use our log monitoring to alert on certain journald log lines, for example if certain services/timers fail. This lets us use a single, central service made explicitly for monitoring and alerting, rather than tacking webhooks onto every service on every host.

oysteikt commented

2026-06-22 17:37:43 +02:00

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We could do something inbetween so we don't become dependent on a single machine maybe. What about setting up services.journalwatch in base and having them send to one or more common hooks or email addresses?

We could do something inbetween so we don't become dependent on a single machine maybe. What about setting up `services.journalwatch` in `base` and having them send to one or more common hooks or email addresses?

oysteikt commented

2026-06-22 17:38:15 +02:00

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That being said though, anything is better than nothing.