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Typo or confusing channel name: Failes-Backups

Open tjirka-dcit opened this issue 11 months ago • 0 comments

Hi,

I believe the Failes-Backups channel is meant to represent something like Failed-Backup-Attempts. However, "Failes" is not a valid English word, and the name can be confusing at first glance. I understand that finding a short, meaningful label is tricky, but perhaps Fails-Backups or All-Failed-Backups would be more accurate.

From the code, it seems that:

Failes-Backups includes all sessions with Result -eq "Failed", even if a retry is planned.

Failed-Backups includes only sessions with Failed and WillBeRetried -ne "True" (i.e., hard failures).

Because PRTG channels can’t be renamed once a sensor is created (if I remember correctly), fixing this would likely require users to recreate the sensor, which might be a breaking change.

So I understand if you prefer to keep it as-is for compatibility reasons, but I wanted to raise it for consideration.

Thanks again for this script – it's incredibly helpful!

tjirka-dcit avatar May 07 '25 21:05 tjirka-dcit