I think there was a fairly good reason for monitoring this a while back, but now it just produces a bunch of spam on IRC and emails every time PayPal hits us with recurring IPNs, which we can see here.
@Elliott Eggleston what was the reason we set up this alert again?
Also, @Jeff Green @Dallas Wisehaupt, I tried acknowledging the alert in Icinga, but I didn't have permission to do it. Can we get permission for that?
@Ejegg pointed out that we should probably do this instead T240581: Send recurring payment notifications to the donations queue
@Elliott Eggleston what was the reason we set up this alert again?
The main reason for the queue alerts is to remind us if we turn the consumers off and forget to turn them on again.
I'd suggest we keep the check but raise the thresholds to dire levels so we only get alerts for real problems. If 15/20k has silenced the noise, maybe we're already there?
Re. acking alerts, hopefully that was fixed in T348559.