Add a double check to reduce the amount of notifications about uptime HOT 7 CLOSED

This Pingdom behavior may hide problems when your site is served by two or more servers and one of them is down. So if we ever add this feature, it should be optional.

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I have the same problem, I monitor more than 50 web sites and I have a lot of false alerts due to temporary problems.
I think this would be a very nice feature to add a double check optional per web site checked in the same form than "Polling interval" and "Slow threshold". It could be something like "Send alert after x errors" and by default x equal 1

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That's a great solution. Would you like to work on a PR for this?

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By PR you mean Pull Request, right ?
In fact I'm already working on it, I have created a new branch in my fork : "alert-threshold-for-checkevents"
I have an alpha version but with one small problem :
Let's say you want to trigger a CheckEvent after 3 errors. So when you have this sequence : up down up, you are not notified of the down alert. But when the status comes back up I am notified at the third up like this :

up up down up up up-> Event

So I have to define when to trigger the up event. I think I have to check if we had 3 errors before the up event, and trigger only in this case.

What do you think ?

By the way, here is my Check Edit Form :

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Yep, I agree. The up event should be notified when a check comes up after at least n down checks, n being the treshold.

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As we say in French "Les grands esprits se rencontrent"

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Fixed in #91

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