[FEATURE REQUEST] Email Notification for Failed Minions in Salt Orchestrate

[JannisDev]

Description:
I use Salt Runner Orchestrate to deploy Highstate across my infrastructure. To ensure that my systems are kept up to date, I schedule this process to run daily via crontab.

However, there is currently no built-in way to get feedback on whether the deployment was successful or if any minions failed. I would like to receive an email notification when a Minion encounters an error during the Highstate run.

I've searched the documentation and existing issues, but haven't found a straightforward solution for this. If such a feature doesn't exist, it would be a valuable addition to Salt.

Suggested solution:

• An option to configure email notifications for failed minions in Salt Orchestrate.
• Alternatively, a way to easily extract the results of failed minions and trigger custom alerting mechanisms.

Is there a recommended way to achieve this or would this be a potential feature for future releases?

Thanks for your time and consideration!

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[whytewolf]

this can already be done within salt.

https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/reactor/index.html + https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/event/master_events.html#job-events + https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.smtp.html