Patent ID: 9678820
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F,G08B

Claim:
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to reduce alerts in distributed computing system by causing the distributed computing system to: receive an alert at a first virtual computing instance (VCI) from a second VCI, wherein the first VCI and the second VCI are included in the distributed computing system; compare the alert with at least one previously received alert to determine if the alert is a duplicate alert; send the alert to an alert notification queue associated with the first VCI in response to a determination that the alert is not a duplicate alert; cause the alert notification queue to re-queue the alert in response to a determination that sending the alert failed; confirm that the alert has been sent in response to the determination that the alert is a duplicate alert; send the alert to the alert notification queue in response to a determination that de-duplication of the alert failed within a threshold timeout period; and send the alert to a user device via at least one of a plurality of notification mechanisms.