Hi,
I see there was a thread started back on September 7, 2011 with subject: Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
this was prior to me joining the mailing list.
I'd like to voice my support for a user-configurable amount of time for the Atlas system to send out an email notification that your probe is down (and returned to service).
My probe which I run on my home internet connection was apparently down for 3.5 days before I just happened to login to look at the stats. Considering I was at home for much of these 3.5 days, and my Internet connection was working, I assume the probe crashed because simply power-cycling it "fixed" the problem.
I know that if I got an email ~15 minutes after the probe was down, my probes downtime would probably have been closer to about 30 minutes rather than 3.5 days.
Thanks.
-Greg