What is absence detection in a log monitoring tool?

Absence detection fires an alert when a log pattern has NOT appeared for a specified period. Unlike event-driven alerts that react to things that happen, absence detection catches services that silently stop producing output — queues that drain, workers that stall, or connections that time out without logging an error.

How does Agata Stack know a service is silently failing if nothing is being logged?

Agata Stack runs an absence sweep on a 30-second timer independently of the event stream. Every 30 seconds it checks whether each absence rule has seen matching activity within its configured time window. If not, the rule fires. The sweep runs continuously, even on services that appear healthy.

Will absence alerts fire during intentional quiet periods, like overnight?

You control this via the time window and rate limits per rule. Setting a longer window (e.g. 30 minutes instead of 5) reduces false positives during naturally quiet periods. The default serviceSilent rule is also rate-limited to 3 executions per hour with a 5-minute cooldown, so a quiet-but-healthy service will not spam you.

Can I set up absence detection for a specific log pattern, not just any log line?

Yes. The pattern format is text:minutes — for example, worker:poll:5 fires if the text "worker:poll" has not appeared for 5 minutes. An empty text field (written as just :minutes) means any log line at all.

How do I test an absence rule without waiting for a real outage?

The Agata Stack stream rule sandbox includes a Force Evaluate button that triggers the absence evaluation immediately, letting you confirm the rule fires and the timeline entry appears without waiting for the real time window to expire.

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