Alert on certain error like 503

[Adrian Lienhard]

What we do is to write to syslog:

C{ #include <syslog.h> }C
...
sub vcl_error {
	C{ syslog(LOG_ERR, "Varnish vcl_error"); }C
	...
	return(deliver);
}

Cheers,
Adrian

On Jun 17, 2011, at 02:26 , Audun Ytterdal wrote:

> I actually just have a Custom errorpage with javascript that post all relevant info from the client to a phpscript. That phpscript could easily have logic for
> Sending mail
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> Den 16. juni 2011 kl. 07:18 skrev Jonathan Hursey <jonathan.hursey at adrevolution.com>:
> 
>> I have varnishncsa writing to a log file and a shell script that greps out all 5XX errors then reports via Nagios if they exceed a certain number. 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Shibashish <shib4u at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Can varnish be made to send out an alert (mail) in case of an error like 503? I do have a monitoring solution but i can't add all the urls for monitoring. Sometimes varnish gives a 503 and i need to be alerted during that time.
>> 
>> Another option can be to keep looking for 503 errors. log them as they occur and keep watching that file.
>> 
>> ShiB.
>> while ( ! ( succeed = try() ) );
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