Add an exit code status check with a delay threshold

[Callum Macdonald]

pt-heartbeat is a great tool. We use it alongside monit to generate alerts if any of our slaves fall behind. However, that requires an intermediary script. It would be great if pt-heartbeat had an option whereby it would check that the replication delay is within a certain threshold and if so, exit 0, if not, exit 1. That would allow other scripts (such as monit) to call pt-heartbeat at regular intervals and verify the replication delay.

I imagine a single argument could be added along the lines of:
--check-threshold 60

Where 60 is the number of seconds considered acceptable. Anything over that would result in a non zero exit code.

[Daniel Nichter (daniel-nichter)]

Thanks for the feedback. Since this isn't a bug, I've created https://blueprints.launchpad.net/percona-toolkit/+spec/pt-heartbeat-check-lag-and-exit

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PT-1080