Cron job for stale or slow heartbeats do not accept arguments specified in the documentation

[kjellgren]

Issue Summary
The tutorial Alert timeouts, heartbeats and Housekeeping state to add command /opt/alerta/bin/alerta heartbeats --alert into /etc/cron.d/alerta but this command do not work.

$ /opt/alerta/bin/alerta heartbeats --alert
Usage: alerta heartbeats [OPTIONS]
Error: Must be a valid severity.

Environment

• alarta 8.0.3
• alarta client 8.0.0
• requests 2.24.0
• click 7.1.2

[satterly]

This also seems to be a problem like so...

$ alerta --profile local heartbeat
Usage: alerta heartbeat [OPTIONS]

Error: Must be a valid severity.