Implement housekeeping and heartbeat alerts via crontab

tasks/alerta.yml

@@ -75,3 +75,23 @@
     dest: '/etc/alertad.conf'
   notify:
     - "Restart uwsgi"
+
+- name: "Configure root CLI"
+  template:
+    src: 'alerta.conf'
+    dest: '/root/.alerta.conf'
+
+- name: "Configure crontabs"
+  cron:
+    name: '{{ item.name }}'
+    minute: '{{ item.minute }}'
+    job: '{{ item.job }} >/dev/null 2>&1'
+    disabled: '{{ crons_disabled|default(false) }}'
+  items:
+    - name: 'Heartbeats to Alert'
+      minute: '*/3'
+      job: '/usr/local/bin/alerta heartbeats --alert'
+    - name: 'Alerta Housekeeping'
+      minute: '0'
+      job: '/usr/local/bin/alerta housekeeping'
+  tags: 'cron'

templates/alerta.conf

+[DEFAULT]
+timezone = Europe/Berlin
+profile = admin
+
+[profile admin]
+endpoint = https://{{ alerta_domain }}/api
+key = {{ alerta_api_key }}