Heartbeat timeout for Nagios-Alerta Gateway

[ryanbarrett]

Hello Nick, thank you for your work on Alerta.

The Heartbeat timeout seems to default to 24 hours.

It would be handy to have a way to set the heartbeat timeout to something like 5 or 10 minutes.
e.g.
broker_module=/usr/lib/nagios/alerta-neb.o http://alertahost:8080/api heartbeat_timeout=300

I searched the code a bit and I didn't see anything in the documentation. Sorry if this is already a feature or I've missed something.
-Ryan

[kstorbakken]

+1, would love to see this added. I tried to fork and add it myself so that the timeout value gets passed with the API call, but I'm not skilled enough to. For now I've simply set the HEARTBEAT_TIMEOUT value in /etc/alertad.conf to an hour. Since nothing is being set for timeout from nagios-alerta, changing the default heartbeat timeout is at least a bit of a hacky workaround for now.