Breaking: Rename minitor_check_milliseconds and minitor_monitor_up_count

To conform with Prometheus metric name best practices, these have been renamed as follows: * `minitor_check_milliseconds` to `minitor_check_seconds` * `minitor_monitor_up_count` to `minitor_monitor_up`
2022-12-19 15:45:23 -08:00
39 changed files with 1115 additions and 1495 deletions
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ name: test
 steps:
  - name: test
-    image: golang:1.26
+    image: golang:1.17
    environment:
      VERSION: ${DRONE_TAG:-${DRONE_COMMIT}}
    commands:
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ trigger:
 steps:
  - name: build all binaries
-    image: golang:1.26
+    image: golang:1.17
    environment:
      VERSION: ${DRONE_TAG:-${DRONE_COMMIT}}
    commands:
@@ -60,15 +60,51 @@ steps:
    when:
      event: tag
-  - name: Build and publish docker images
+  - name: push image - arm
-    image: thegeeklab/drone-docker-buildx
+    image: plugins/docker
    settings:
      repo: iamthefij/minitor-go
      auto_tag: true
-      platforms:
+      auto_tag_suffix: linux-arm
-        - linux/amd64
+      username:
-        - linux/arm64
+        from_secret: docker_username
-        - linux/arm
+      password:
        from_secret: docker_password
      build_args:
        - ARCH=arm
        - REPO=arm32v7
  - name: push image - arm64
    image: plugins/docker
    settings:
      repo: iamthefij/minitor-go
      auto_tag: true
      auto_tag_suffix: linux-arm64
      username:
        from_secret: docker_username
      password:
        from_secret: docker_password
      build_args:
        - ARCH=arm64
        - REPO=arm64v8
  - name: push image - amd64
    image: plugins/docker
    settings:
      repo: iamthefij/minitor-go
      auto_tag: true
      auto_tag_suffix: linux-amd64
      username:
        from_secret: docker_username
      password:
        from_secret: docker_password
  - name: publish manifest
    image: plugins/manifest
    settings:
      spec: manifest.tmpl
      auto_tag: true
      ignore_missing: true
      username:
        from_secret: docker_username
      password:
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
 name: ci
 on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
    tags:
      - "v*"
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main
 jobs:
  tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
      - name: Set up Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v6
        with:
          go-version-file: go.mod
      - name: Run tests
        run: make test
  lint:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
      - name: Set up Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v6
        with:
          go-version-file: go.mod
      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
      - name: Run pre-commit
        uses: https://git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/pre-commit-action@v3.1.0
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: test
    if: "${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}"
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
      - name: Set up Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v6
        with:
          go-version-file: go.mod
      - name: Build binaries
        env:
          VERSION: "${{ github.REF_NAME }}"
        run: make all
      # Package binaries and create release if this is a tagged build
      - name: Compress binaries
        if: "${{ github.ref_type == 'tag' }}"
        run: find ./dist -type f -executable -execdir tar -czvf {}.tar.gz {} \;
      - name: Upload release
        uses: https://gitea.com/actions/gitea-release-action@v1
        if: "${{ github.ref_type == 'tag' }}"
        with:
          files: |-
            dist/*.tar.gz
          md5sum: true
          sha256sum: true
      - name: Docker meta
        id: meta
        uses: docker/metadata-action@v6
        with:
          # list of Docker images to use as base name for tags
          images: |
            ${{ github.REPOSITORY }}
          # generate Docker tags based on the following events/attributes
          tags: |
            type=ref,event=branch
            type=ref,event=pr
            type=semver,pattern={{version}}
            type=semver,pattern={{major}}.{{minor}}
            type=semver,pattern={{major}}
      - name: Login to Docker Hub
        uses: docker/login-action@v4
        if: "${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}"
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}
      - name: Set up QEMU
        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v4
      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v4
      - name: Build and push
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
        with:
          # Use path context so we can access pre-compiled binaries
          context: .
          push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
          platforms: |
            linux/amd64
            linux/arm64
            linux/arm/v7
          tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
          labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 # User configuration
 config.yml
 config.hcl
 # Output binary
 minitor
@@ -1,34 +1,37 @@
-version: "2"
+---
 linters:
  enable:
    - errcheck
    - errname
    - errorlint
    - exhaustive
-    - gosec
+    - gofumpt
-    - govet
+    - goimports
-    - ineffassign
+    - gomnd
    - goprintffuncname
    - misspell
-    - mnd
+    - promlinter
-    - modernize
+    - tagliatelle
-    - staticcheck
+    - tenv
    - tagalign
    - testpackage
    - thelper
    - tparallel
    - unconvert
    - unused
    - wrapcheck
-    - wsl_v5
+    - wsl
-  exclusions:
+  disable:
-    generated: lax
+    - gochecknoglobals
-    presets:
+
-      - common-false-positives
+linters-settings:
  gosec:
    excludes:
      - G204
  tagliatelle:
    case:
      rules:
-      - linters:
+        yaml: snake
 issues:
  exclude-rules:
    - path: _test\.go
      linters:
        - gosec
        path: _test\.go
 formatters:
  enable:
    - gofumpt
    - goimports
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v6.0.0
+    rev: v4.4.0
    hooks:
      - id: check-added-large-files
      - id: check-yaml
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ repos:
      - id: end-of-file-fixer
      - id: check-merge-conflict
  - repo: https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint
-    rev: v2.10.1
+    rev: v1.50.1
    hooks:
      - id: golangci-lint
  - repo: https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint
-    rev: refs/pull/1152/head
+    rev: v2.12.1-beta
    hooks:
-      - id: hadolint-github
+      - id: hadolint
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-FROM alpine:3.23
+ARG REPO=library
 FROM ${REPO}/alpine:3.12
 RUN mkdir /app
 WORKDIR /app/
 # Add common checking tools
-# hadolint ignore=DL3018
+RUN apk --no-cache add bash=~5.0 curl=~7.79 jq=~1.6
 RUN apk --no-cache add bash=~5 curl=~8 jq=~1 bind-tools=~9 tzdata
 # Add minitor user for running as non-root
 RUN addgroup -S minitor && adduser -S minitor -G minitor
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@ COPY ./scripts /app/scripts
 RUN chmod -R 755 /app/scripts
 # Copy minitor in
-ARG TARGETOS
+ARG ARCH=amd64
-ARG TARGETARCH
+COPY ./dist/minitor-linux-${ARCH} ./minitor
 COPY ./dist/minitor-${TARGETOS}-${TARGETARCH} ./minitor
 # Drop to non-root user
 USER minitor
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-FROM golang:1.26 AS builder
+ARG REPO=library
 FROM golang:1.17 AS builder
 RUN mkdir /app
 WORKDIR /app
 COPY ./go.mod ./go.sum /app/
@@ -7,13 +9,12 @@ RUN go mod download
 COPY ./*.go /app/
-ARG TARGETOS
+ARG ARCH=amd64
 ARG TARGETARCH
 ARG VERSION=dev
-ENV CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=$TARGETOS GOARCH=${TARGETARCH}
+ENV CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=${ARCH}
 RUN go build -ldflags "-X main.version=${VERSION}" -a -installsuffix nocgo -o minitor .
-FROM alpine:3.23
+FROM ${REPO}/alpine:3.12
 RUN mkdir /app
 WORKDIR /app/
@@ -21,8 +22,7 @@ WORKDIR /app/
 COPY --from=builder /app/minitor .
 # Add common checking tools
-# hadolint ignore=DL3018
+RUN apk --no-cache add bash=~5.0 curl=~7.79 jq=~1.6
 RUN apk --no-cache add bash=~5 curl=~8 jq=~1 bind-tools=~9 tzdata
 # Add minitor user for running as non-root
 RUN addgroup -S minitor && adduser -S minitor -G minitor
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DOCKER_TAG ?= minitor-go-${USER}
 VERSION ?= $(shell git describe --tags --dirty)
-GOFILES = *.go go.mod go.sum
+GOFILES = *.go
 # Multi-arch targets are generated from this
 TARGET_ALIAS = minitor-linux-amd64 minitor-linux-arm minitor-linux-arm64 minitor-darwin-amd64
 TARGETS = $(addprefix dist/,$(TARGET_ALIAS))
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ docker-build:
 .PHONY: docker-run
 docker-run: docker-build
-	docker run --rm -v $(shell pwd)/sample-config.hcl:/root/config.hcl $(DOCKER_TAG)
+	docker run --rm -v $(shell pwd)/config.yml:/root/config.yml $(DOCKER_TAG)
 ## Multi-arch targets
 $(TARGETS): $(GOFILES)
@@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ $(TARGET_ALIAS):
 # Arch specific docker build targets
 .PHONY: docker-build-arm
 docker-build-arm: dist/minitor-linux-arm
-	docker build --platform linux/arm . -t ${DOCKER_TAG}-linux-arm
+	docker build --build-arg REPO=arm32v7 --build-arg ARCH=arm . -t ${DOCKER_TAG}-linux-arm
 .PHONY: docker-build-arm64
 docker-build-arm64: dist/minitor-linux-arm64
-	docker build  --platform linux/arm64 . -t ${DOCKER_TAG}-linux-arm64
+	docker build --build-arg REPO=arm64v8 --build-arg ARCH=arm64 . -t ${DOCKER_TAG}-linux-arm64
 # Cross run on host architechture
 .PHONY: docker-run-arm
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ A minimal monitoring system
 ## What does it do?
-Minitor accepts an HCL configuration file with a set of commands to run and a set of alerts to execute when those commands fail. Minitor has a narow feature set and instead follows a principle to outsource to other command line tools when possible. Thus, it relies on other command line tools to do checks and issue alerts. To make getting started a bit easier, Minitor includes a few scripts to help with common tasks.
+Minitor accepts a YAML configuration file with a set of commands to run and a set of alerts to execute when those commands fail. It is designed to be as simple as possible and relies on other command line tools to do checks and issue alerts.
 ## But why?
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ I'm running a few small services and found Sensu, Consul, Nagios, etc. to all be
 Install and execute with:
 ```bash
-go install github.com/iamthefij/minitor-go/v2@latest
+go get github.com/iamthefij/minitor-go
 minitor
 ```
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ If locally developing you can use:
 make run
 ```
-It will read the contents of `sample-config.hcl` and begin its loop. You could also run it directly and provide a new config file via the `-config` argument.
+It will read the contents of `config.yml` and begin its loop. You could also run it directly and provide a new config file via the `-config` argument.
 #### Docker
@@ -38,83 +38,51 @@ You can pull this repository directly from Docker:
 docker pull iamthefij/minitor-go:latest
 ```
-The Docker image uses a default `config.hcl` copied from `sample-config.hcl`. This won't really do anything for you, so when you run the Docker image, you should supply your own `config.hcl` file:
+The Docker image uses a default `config.yml` that is copied from `sample-config.yml`. This won't really do anything for you, so when you run the Docker image, you should supply your own `config.yml` file:
 ```bash
-docker run -v $PWD/sample-config.hcl:/app/config.hcl iamthefij/minitor-go:latest
+docker run -v $PWD/config.yml:/app/config.yml iamthefij/minitor-go:latest
 ```
 Images are provided for `amd64`, `arm`, and `arm64` architechtures.
 You can configure the timezone for the container by passing a `TZ` env variable. Eg. `TZ=America/Los_Angeles`.
 ## Configuring
-In this repo, you can explore the `sample-config.hcl` file for an example, but the general structure is as follows. If you are passing environment variables to your commands or alerts, you should be aware that `${VAR}` syntax is reserved for HCL variable interpolation. To avoid issues, you can use `$${VAR}` syntax to escape the `$` character, simply use `$VAR`.
+In this repo, you can explore the `sample-config.yml` file for an example, but the general structure is as follows. It should be noted that environment variable interpolation happens on load of the YAML file.
 ```hcl
 The global configurations are:
 |key|value|
 |---|---|
 |`check_interval`|Maximum frequency to run checks for each monitor as duration, eg. 1m2s.|
-|`default_alert_after`|A default value used as an `alert_after` value for a monitor if not specified. Defaults 1, which will alert immediately.|
+|`monitors`|List of all monitors. Detailed description below|
-|`default_alert_every`|A default value used as an `alert_every` value for a monitor if not specified. Defaults to -1, which will re-alert exponentially.|
+|`alerts`|List of all alerts. Detailed description below|
 |`default_alert_down`|Default down alerts to used by a monitor in case none are provided.|
 |`default_alert_up`|Default up alerts to used by a monitor in case none are provided.|
 |`monitor`|block listing monitors. Detailed description below|
 |`alert`|List of all alerts. Detailed description below|
 ### Monitors
-Represent your monitors as blocks with a label indicating the name of the monitor.
+All monitors should be listed under `monitors`.
 ```hcl
 monitor "example" {
  command = ["echo", "Hello, World!"]
  alert_down = ["log"]
  alert_up = ["log"]
  check_interval = "1m"
  alert_after = 1
  alert_every = -1
 }
 ```
 Each monitor allows the following configuration:
 |key|value|
 |---|---|
 |`name`|Name of the monitor running. This will show up in messages and logs.|
-|`command`|A list of strings representing a command to be executed. This command's exit value will determine whether the check is successful. This value is mutually exclusive to `shell_command`|
+|`command`|Specifies the command that should be executed, either in exec or shell form. This command's exit value will determine whether the check is successful|
 |`shell_command`|A single string that represents a shell command to be executed. This command's exit value will determine whether the check is successful. This value is mutually exclusive to `command`|
 |`alert_down`|A list of Alerts to be triggered when the monitor is in a "down" state|
 |`alert_up`|A list of Alerts to be triggered when the monitor moves to an "up" state|
 |`check_interval`|The interval at which this monitor should be checked. This must be greater than the global `check_interval` value|
-|`alert_after`|Allows specifying the number of failed checks before an alert should be triggered. A value of 1 will start sending alerts after the first failure.|
+|`alert_after`|Allows specifying the number of failed checks before an alert should be triggered|
 |`alert_every`|Allows specifying how often an alert should be retriggered. There are a few magic numbers here. Defaults to `-1` for an exponential backoff. Setting to `0` disables re-alerting. Positive values will allow retriggering after the specified number of checks|
 ### Alerts
-Represent your alerts as blocks with a lable indicating the name of the alert. The name will be used in your monitor setup in `alert_down` and `alert_up`.
+Alerts exist as objects keyed under `alerts`. Their key should be the name of the Alert. This is used in your monitor setup in `alert_down` and `alert_up`.
-```hcl
+Eachy alert allows the following configuration:
 monitor "example" {
  command = ["false"]
  alert_down = ["log"]
 }
 alert "log" {
  shell_command = "echo '{{.MonitorName}} is down!'"
 }
 ```
 Each alert allows the following configuration:
 |key|value|
 |---|---|
-|`command`|Specifies the command that should be executed in exec form. This is the command that will be run when the alert is executed. This can be templated with environment variables or the variables shown in the table below. This value is mutually exclusive to `shell_command`|
+|`command`|Specifies the command that should be executed, either in exec or shell form. This is the command that will be run when the alert is executed. This can be templated with environment variables or the variables shown in the table below|
 |`shell_command`|Specifies a shell command as a single string. This is the command that will be run when the alert is executed. This can be templated with environment variables or the variables shown in the table below. This value is mutually exclusive to `command`|
 Also, when alerts are executed, they will be passed through Go's format function with arguments for some attributes of the Monitor. The following monitor specific variables can be referenced using Go formatting syntax:
@@ -123,38 +91,10 @@ Also, when alerts are executed, they will be passed through Go's format function
 |`{{.AlertCount}}`|Number of times this monitor has alerted|
 |`{{.FailureCount}}`|The total number of sequential failed checks for this monitor|
 |`{{.LastCheckOutput}}`|The last returned value from the check command to either stderr or stdout|
-|`{{.LastSuccess}}`|The datetime of the last successful check as a go Time struct|
+|`{{.LastSuccess}}`|The ISO datetime of the last successful check|
 |`{{.MonitorName}}`|The name of the monitor that failed and triggered the alert|
 |`{{.IsUp}}`|Indicates if the monitor that is alerting is up or not. Can be used in a conditional message template|
 To provide flexible formatting, the following non-standard functions are available in templates:
 |func|description|
 |---|---|
 |`ANSIC <Time>`|Formats provided time in ANSIC format|
 |`UnixDate <Time>`|Formats provided time in UnixDate format|
 |`RubyDate <Time>`|Formats provided time in RubyDate format|
 |`RFC822Z <Time>`|Formats provided time in RFC822Z format|
 |`RFC850 <Time>`|Formats provided time in RFC850 format|
 |`RFC1123 <Time>`|Formats provided time in RFC1123 format|
 |`RFC1123Z <Time>`|Formats provided time in RFC1123Z format|
 |`RFC3339 <Time>`|Formats provided time in RFC3339 format|
 |`RFC3339Nano <Time>`|Formats provided time in RFC3339Nano format|
 |`FormatTime <Time> <string template>`|Formats provided time according to provided template|
 |`InTZ <Time> <string timezone name>`|Converts provided time to parsed timezone from the provided name|
 For more information, check out the [Go documentation for the time module](https://pkg.go.dev/time@go1.20.7#pkg-constants).
 #### Running alerts on startup
 It's not the best feeling to find out your alerts are broken when you're expecting to be alerted about another failure. To avoid this and provide early insight into broken alerts, it is possible to specify a list of alerts to run when Minitor starts up. This can be done using the command line flag `-startup-alerts`. This flag accepts a comma separated list of strings and will run a test of each of those alerts. Minitor will then respond as it typically does for any failed alert. This can be used to allow you time to correct when initially launching, and to allow schedulers to more easily detect a failed deployment of Minitor.
 Eg.
 ```bash
 minitor -startup-alerts=log_down,log_up -config ./config.hcl
 ```
 ### Metrics
 Minitor supports exporting metrics for [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/). Prometheus is an open source tool for reading and querying metrics from different sources. Combined with another tool, [Grafana](https://grafana.com/), it allows building of charts and dashboards. You could also opt to just use Minitor to log check results, and instead do your alerting with Grafana.
@@ -169,48 +109,6 @@ minitor -metrics
 minitor -metrics -metrics-port 3000
 ```
 ## Migrating from v1 to v2
 Minitor v2 introduces some breaking changes from v1. The most notable changes are:
  - The configuration file is now in HCL format instead of YAML.
  - The the Python formatting backwards compatability is removed.
  - The Command and ShellCommand fields are now mutually exclusive.
  - The check_interval is now strictly a duration string value. Eg. "30s" rather than `30`.
  - Default alert_every is now -1 (exponential backoff) rather than 0 (no re-alerting).
 For the configuration, a confic that looked like this in v1:
 ```yaml
 check_interval: 60
 monitors:
  - name: example
    command: "false"
    alert_down: ["log"]
 alerts:
  log:
    command: ["echo", "Minitor up={{.IsUp}} for {{.MonitorName}}"]
 ```
 Would now look like this in v2:
 ```hcl
 check_interval = "1m"
 monitor "example" {
  # example showing string to shell command migration
  shell_command = "false"
  alert_down = ["log"]
  check_interval = "1m"
 }
 alert "log" {
  # example showing list to exec command migration
  command = ["echo", "Minitor up={{.IsUp}} for {{.MonitorName}}"]
 }
 ```
 ## Contributing
 Whether you're looking to submit a patch or tell me I broke something, you can contribute through the Github mirror and I can merge PRs back to the source repository.
@@ -218,3 +116,52 @@ Whether you're looking to submit a patch or tell me I broke something, you can c
 Primary Repo: https://git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/minitor.git
 Github Mirror: https://github.com/IamTheFij/minitor.git
 ## Original Minitor
 This is a reimplementation of [Minitor](https://git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/minitor) in Go
 Minitor is already a minimal monitoring tool. Python 3 was a quick way to get something live, but Python itself comes with a large footprint. Thus Go feels like a better fit for the project, longer term.
 Initial target is meant to be roughly compatible requiring only minor changes to configuration. Future iterations may diverge to take advantage of Go specific features.
 ### Differences from Python version
 Templating for Alert messages has been updated. In the Python version, `str.format(...)` was used with certain keys passed in that could be used to format messages. In the Go version, we use a struct, `AlertNotice` defined in `alert.go` and the built in Go templating format. Eg.
 minitor-py:
 ```yaml
 alerts:
  log:
    command: 'echo {monitor_name}'
 ```
 minitor-go:
 ```yaml
 alerts:
  log:
    command: 'echo {{.MonitorName}}'
 ```
 Interval durations have changed from being an integer number of seconds to a duration string supported by Go, for example:
 minitor-py:
 ```yaml
 check_interval: 90
 ```
 minitor-go:
 ```yaml
 check_interval: 1m30s
 ```
 For the time being, legacy configs for the Python version of Minitor should be compatible if you apply the `-py-compat` flag when running Minitor. Eventually, this flag will go away when later breaking changes are introduced.
 ## Future
 Future, potentially breaking changes
  - [ ] Consider value of templating vs injecting values into Env variables
  - [ ] Async checking
  - [ ] Revisit metrics and see if they all make sense
  - [ ] Consider dropping `alert_up` and `alert_down` in favor of using Go templates that offer more control of messaging (Breaking)
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
 	"text/template"
 	"time"
-	"git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog/v2"
+	"git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog"
 )
 var (
@@ -20,99 +21,63 @@ var (
 // Alert is a config driven mechanism for sending a notice
 type Alert struct {
-	Name                 string   `hcl:"name,label"`
+	Name                 string
-	Command              []string `hcl:"command,optional"`
+	Command              CommandOrShell
 	ShellCommand         string   `hcl:"shell_command,optional"`
 	commandTemplate      []*template.Template
 	commandShellTemplate *template.Template
 }
 // AlertNotice captures the context for an alert to be sent
 type AlertNotice struct {
-	AlertCount      int
+	AlertCount      int16
-	FailureCount    int
+	FailureCount    int16
 	IsUp            bool
 	LastSuccess     time.Time
 	MonitorName     string
 	LastCheckOutput string
 }
-// Validate checks that the Alert is properly configured and returns errors if not
+// IsValid returns a boolean indicating if the Alert has been correctly
-func (alert Alert) Validate() error {
+// configured
-	hasCommand := len(alert.Command) > 0
+func (alert Alert) IsValid() bool {
-	hasShellCommand := alert.ShellCommand != ""
+	return !alert.Command.Empty()
 	var err error
 	hasAtLeastOneCommand := hasCommand || hasShellCommand
 	if !hasAtLeastOneCommand {
 		err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf(
 			"%w: alert %s has no command or shell_command configured",
 			ErrInvalidAlert,
 			alert.Name,
 		))
 	}
 	hasAtMostOneCommand := !(hasCommand && hasShellCommand)
 	if !hasAtMostOneCommand {
 		err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf(
 			"%w: alert %s has both command and shell_command configured",
 			ErrInvalidAlert,
 			alert.Name,
 		))
 	}
 	return err
 }
 // BuildTemplates compiles command templates for the Alert
 func (alert *Alert) BuildTemplates() error {
 	// TODO: Remove legacy template support later after 1.0
 	legacy := strings.NewReplacer(
 		"{alert_count}", "{{.AlertCount}}",
 		"{alert_message}", "{{.MonitorName}} check has failed {{.FailureCount}} times",
 		"{failure_count}", "{{.FailureCount}}",
 		"{last_output}", "{{.LastCheckOutput}}",
 		"{last_success}", "{{.LastSuccess}}",
 		"{monitor_name}", "{{.MonitorName}}",
 	)
 	slog.Debugf("Building template for alert %s", alert.Name)
 	// Time format func factory
 	tff := func(formatString string) func(time.Time) string {
 		return func(t time.Time) string {
 			return t.Format(formatString)
 		}
 	}
 	// Create some functions for formatting datetimes in popular formats
 	timeFormatFuncs := template.FuncMap{
 		"ANSIC":       tff(time.ANSIC),
 		"UnixDate":    tff(time.UnixDate),
 		"RubyDate":    tff(time.RubyDate),
 		"RFC822Z":     tff(time.RFC822Z),
 		"RFC850":      tff(time.RFC850),
 		"RFC1123":     tff(time.RFC1123),
 		"RFC1123Z":    tff(time.RFC1123Z),
 		"RFC3339":     tff(time.RFC3339),
 		"RFC3339Nano": tff(time.RFC3339Nano),
 		"FormatTime": func(t time.Time, timeFormat string) string {
 			return t.Format(timeFormat)
 		},
 		"InTZ": func(t time.Time, tzName string) (time.Time, error) {
 			tz, err := time.LoadLocation(tzName)
 			if err != nil {
 				return t, fmt.Errorf("failed to convert time to specified tz: %w", err)
 			}
 			return t.In(tz), nil
 		},
 	}
 	switch {
-	case alert.Command != nil:
+	case alert.commandTemplate == nil && alert.Command.Command != nil:
 		alert.commandTemplate = []*template.Template{}
-		for i, cmdPart := range alert.Command {
+		for i, cmdPart := range alert.Command.Command {
 			if PyCompat {
 				cmdPart = legacy.Replace(cmdPart)
 			}
 			alert.commandTemplate = append(alert.commandTemplate, template.Must(
-				template.New(alert.Name+fmt.Sprint(i)).Funcs(timeFormatFuncs).Parse(cmdPart),
+				template.New(alert.Name+fmt.Sprint(i)).Parse(cmdPart),
 			))
 		}
-	case alert.ShellCommand != "":
+	case alert.commandShellTemplate == nil && alert.Command.ShellCommand != "":
-		shellCmd := alert.ShellCommand
+		shellCmd := alert.Command.ShellCommand
 		if PyCompat {
 			shellCmd = legacy.Replace(shellCmd)
 		}
 		alert.commandShellTemplate = template.Must(
-			template.New(alert.Name).Funcs(timeFormatFuncs).Parse(shellCmd),
+			template.New(alert.Name).Parse(shellCmd),
 		)
 	default:
 		return fmt.Errorf("No template provided for alert %s: %w", alert.Name, errNoTemplate)
@@ -172,7 +137,7 @@ func (alert Alert) Send(notice AlertNotice) (outputStr string, err error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		err = fmt.Errorf(
-			"Alert %s failed to send. Returned %w: %w",
+			"Alert '%s' failed to send. Returned %v: %w",
 			alert.Name,
 			err,
 			ErrAlertFailed,
@@ -181,3 +146,16 @@ func (alert Alert) Send(notice AlertNotice) (outputStr string, err error) {
 	return outputStr, err
 }
 // NewLogAlert creates an alert that does basic logging using echo
 func NewLogAlert() *Alert {
 	return &Alert{
 		Name: "log",
 		Command: CommandOrShell{
 			Command: []string{
 				"echo",
 				"{{.MonitorName}} {{if .IsUp}}has recovered{{else}}check has failed {{.FailureCount}} times{{end}}",
 			},
 		},
 	}
 }
@@ -1,84 +1,107 @@
-package main_test
+package main
 import (
-	"errors"
+	"log"
 	"testing"
 	m "git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/minitor-go/v2"
 )
-func TestAlertValidate(t *testing.T) {
+func TestAlertIsValid(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	cases := []struct {
-		alert    m.Alert
+		alert    Alert
-		expected error
+		expected bool
 		name     string
 	}{
-		{m.Alert{Command: []string{"echo", "test"}}, nil, "Command only"},
+		{Alert{Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"echo", "test"}}}, true, "Command only"},
-		{m.Alert{ShellCommand: "echo test"}, nil, "CommandShell only"},
+		{Alert{Command: CommandOrShell{ShellCommand: "echo test"}}, true, "CommandShell only"},
-		{m.Alert{Command: []string{"echo", "test"}, ShellCommand: "echo test"}, m.ErrInvalidAlert, "Both commands"},
+		{Alert{}, false, "No commands"},
 		{m.Alert{}, m.ErrInvalidAlert, "No commands"},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
 		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
-		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+		actual := c.alert.IsValid()
-			t.Parallel()
+		if actual != c.expected {
-
+			t.Errorf("IsValid(%v), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expected, actual)
-			actual := c.alert.Validate()
+			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 			hasErr := (actual != nil)
 			expectErr := (c.expected != nil)
 			if hasErr != expectErr || !errors.Is(actual, c.expected) {
 				t.Errorf("expected=%t actual=%t", c.expected, actual)
 		}
-		})
+
 		log.Println("-----")
 	}
 }
 func TestAlertSend(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
-		alert          m.Alert
+		alert          Alert
-		notice         m.AlertNotice
+		notice         AlertNotice
 		expectedOutput string
 		expectErr      bool
 		name           string
 		pyCompat       bool
 	}{
 		{
-			m.Alert{Command: []string{"echo", "{{.MonitorName}}"}},
+			Alert{Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"echo", "{{.MonitorName}}"}}},
-			m.AlertNotice{MonitorName: "test"},
+			AlertNotice{MonitorName: "test"},
 			"test\n",
 			false,
 			"Command with template",
 			false,
 		},
 		{
-			m.Alert{ShellCommand: "echo {{.MonitorName}}"},
+			Alert{Command: CommandOrShell{ShellCommand: "echo {{.MonitorName}}"}},
-			m.AlertNotice{MonitorName: "test"},
+			AlertNotice{MonitorName: "test"},
 			"test\n",
 			false,
 			"Command shell with template",
 			false,
 		},
 		{
-			m.Alert{Command: []string{"echo", "{{.Bad}}"}},
+			Alert{Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"echo", "{{.Bad}}"}}},
-			m.AlertNotice{MonitorName: "test"},
+			AlertNotice{MonitorName: "test"},
 			"",
 			true,
 			"Command with bad template",
 			false,
 		},
 		{
-			m.Alert{ShellCommand: "echo {{.Bad}}"},
+			Alert{Command: CommandOrShell{ShellCommand: "echo {{.Bad}}"}},
-			m.AlertNotice{MonitorName: "test"},
+			AlertNotice{MonitorName: "test"},
 			"",
 			true,
 			"Command shell with bad template",
 			false,
 		},
 		{
 			Alert{Command: CommandOrShell{ShellCommand: "echo {alert_message}"}},
 			AlertNotice{MonitorName: "test", FailureCount: 1},
 			"test check has failed 1 times\n",
 			false,
 			"Command shell with legacy template",
 			true,
 		},
 		// Test default log alert down
 		{
 			*NewLogAlert(),
 			AlertNotice{MonitorName: "Test", FailureCount: 1, IsUp: false},
 			"Test check has failed 1 times\n",
 			false,
 			"Default log alert down",
 			false,
 		},
 		// Test default log alert up
 		{
 			*NewLogAlert(),
 			AlertNotice{MonitorName: "Test", IsUp: true},
 			"Test has recovered\n",
 			false,
 			"Default log alert up",
 			false,
 		},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
-
+		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
-		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+		// Set PyCompat to value of compat flag
-			t.Parallel()
+		PyCompat = c.pyCompat
 		err := c.alert.BuildTemplates()
 		if err != nil {
@@ -90,48 +113,54 @@ func TestAlertSend(t *testing.T) {
 		if output != c.expectedOutput {
 			t.Errorf("Send(%v output), expected=%v actual=%v", c.name, c.expectedOutput, output)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
 		if hasErr != c.expectErr {
 			t.Errorf("Send(%v err), expected=%v actual=%v", c.name, "Err", err)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-		})
+
 		// Set PyCompat back to default value
 		PyCompat = false
 		log.Println("-----")
 	}
 }
 func TestAlertSendNoTemplates(t *testing.T) {
-	alert := m.Alert{}
+	alert := Alert{}
-	notice := m.AlertNotice{}
+	notice := AlertNotice{}
 	output, err := alert.Send(notice)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("Send(no template), expected=%v actual=%v", "Err", output)
 	}
 	log.Println("-----")
 }
 func TestAlertBuildTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
-		alert     m.Alert
+		alert     Alert
 		expectErr bool
 		name      string
 	}{
-		{m.Alert{Command: []string{"echo", "test"}}, false, "Command only"},
+		{Alert{Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"echo", "test"}}}, false, "Command only"},
-		{m.Alert{ShellCommand: "echo test"}, false, "CommandShell only"},
+		{Alert{Command: CommandOrShell{ShellCommand: "echo test"}}, false, "CommandShell only"},
-		{m.Alert{}, true, "No commands"},
+		{Alert{}, true, "No commands"},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
-
+		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
 		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
 		err := c.alert.BuildTemplates()
 		hasErr := (err != nil)
 		if hasErr != c.expectErr {
 			t.Errorf("IsValid(%v), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expectErr, err)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-		})
+		log.Println("-----")
 	}
 }
@@ -2,126 +2,141 @@ package main
 import (
 	"errors"
-	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"time"
-	"git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog/v2"
+	"git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog"
-	"github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2/hclsimple"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
-var (
+var errInvalidConfig = errors.New("Invalid configuration")
 	ErrLoadingConfig  = errors.New("Failed to load or parse configuration")
 	ErrConfigInit     = errors.New("Failed to initialize configuration")
 	ErrInvalidConfig  = errors.New("Invalid configuration")
 	ErrNoAlerts       = errors.New("No alerts provided")
 	ErrInvalidAlert   = errors.New("Invalid alert configuration")
 	ErrNoMonitors     = errors.New("No monitors provided")
 	ErrInvalidMonitor = errors.New("Invalid monitor configuration")
 	ErrUnknownAlert   = errors.New("Unknown alert")
 )
 // Config type is contains all provided user configuration
 type Config struct {
-	CheckIntervalStr string `hcl:"check_interval"`
+	CheckInterval SecondsOrDuration `yaml:"check_interval"`
-	CheckInterval    time.Duration
+	Monitors      []*Monitor
-
+	Alerts        map[string]*Alert
 	DefaultAlertAfter int        `hcl:"default_alert_after,optional"`
 	DefaultAlertEvery *int       `hcl:"default_alert_every,optional"`
 	DefaultAlertDown  []string   `hcl:"default_alert_down,optional"`
 	DefaultAlertUp    []string   `hcl:"default_alert_up,optional"`
 	Monitors          []*Monitor `hcl:"monitor,block"`
 	Alerts            []*Alert   `hcl:"alert,block"`
 	alertLookup map[string]*Alert
 }
-// Init performs extra initialization on top of loading the config from file
+// CommandOrShell type wraps a string or list of strings
-func (config *Config) Init() (err error) {
+// for executing a command directly or in a shell
-	config.CheckInterval, err = time.ParseDuration(config.CheckIntervalStr)
+type CommandOrShell struct {
 	ShellCommand string
 	Command      []string
 }
 // Empty checks if the Command has a value
 func (cos CommandOrShell) Empty() bool {
 	return (cos.ShellCommand == "" && cos.Command == nil)
 }
 // UnmarshalYAML allows unmarshalling either a string or slice of strings
 // and parsing them as either a command or a shell command.
 func (cos *CommandOrShell) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) error {
 	var cmd []string
 	err := unmarshal(&cmd)
 	// Error indicates this is shell command
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse top level check_interval duration: %w", err)
+		var shellCmd string
 		err := unmarshal(&shellCmd)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-	if config.DefaultAlertAfter == 0 {
+		cos.ShellCommand = shellCmd
-		minAlertAfter := 1
+	} else {
-		config.DefaultAlertAfter = minAlertAfter
+		cos.Command = cmd
 	}
-	if config.DefaultAlertEvery == nil {
+	return nil
 		defaultDefaultAlertEvery := -1
 		config.DefaultAlertEvery = &defaultDefaultAlertEvery
 }
-	for _, monitor := range config.Monitors {
+// SecondsOrDuration wraps a duration value for parsing a duration or seconds from YAML
-		if err = monitor.Init(
+// NOTE: This should be removed in favor of only parsing durations once compatibility is broken
-			config.DefaultAlertAfter,
+type SecondsOrDuration struct {
-			config.DefaultAlertEvery,
+	value time.Duration
 			config.DefaultAlertDown,
 			config.DefaultAlertUp,
 		); err != nil {
 			return
 		}
 }
-	err = config.BuildAllTemplates()
+// Value returns a duration value
-
+func (sod SecondsOrDuration) Value() time.Duration {
-	return
+	return sod.value
 }
-// IsValid checks config validity and returns true if valid
+// UnmarshalYAML allows unmarshalling a duration value or seconds if an int was provided
-func (config Config) IsValid() error {
+func (sod *SecondsOrDuration) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) error {
-	var err error
+	var seconds int64
 	err := unmarshal(&seconds)
-	// Validate alerts
+	if err == nil {
-	if len(config.Alerts) == 0 {
+		sod.value = time.Second * time.Duration(seconds)
-		err = errors.Join(err, ErrNoAlerts)
+
 		return nil
 	}
-	for _, alert := range config.Alerts {
+	// Error indicates that we don't have an int
-		err = errors.Join(err, alert.Validate())
+	err = unmarshal(&sod.value)
 	}
 	// Validate monitors
 	if len(config.Monitors) == 0 {
 		err = errors.Join(err, ErrNoMonitors)
 	}
 	for _, monitor := range config.Monitors {
 		err = errors.Join(err, monitor.Validate())
 		// Check that all Monitor alerts actually exist
 		for _, isUp := range []bool{true, false} {
 			for _, alertName := range monitor.GetAlertNames(isUp) {
 				if _, ok := config.GetAlert(alertName); !ok {
 					err = errors.Join(
 						err,
 						fmt.Errorf("%w: %s. %w: %s", ErrInvalidMonitor, monitor.Name, ErrUnknownAlert, alertName),
 					)
 				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
 	return err
 }
-// GetAlert returns an alert by name
+// IsValid checks config validity and returns true if valid
-func (c Config) GetAlert(name string) (*Alert, bool) {
+func (config Config) IsValid() (isValid bool) {
-	if c.alertLookup == nil {
+	isValid = true
-		c.alertLookup = map[string]*Alert{}
+
-		for _, alert := range c.Alerts {
+	// Validate alerts
-			c.alertLookup[alert.Name] = alert
+	if config.Alerts == nil || len(config.Alerts) == 0 {
 		// This should never happen because there is a default alert named 'log' for now
 		slog.Errorf("Invalid alert configuration: Must provide at least one alert")
 		isValid = false
 	}
 	for _, alert := range config.Alerts {
 		if !alert.IsValid() {
 			slog.Errorf("Invalid alert configuration: %+v", alert.Name)
 			isValid = false
 		} else {
 			slog.Debugf("Loaded alert %s", alert.Name)
 		}
 	}
-	v, ok := c.alertLookup[name]
+	// Validate monitors
 	if config.Monitors == nil || len(config.Monitors) == 0 {
 		slog.Errorf("Invalid monitor configuration: Must provide at least one monitor")
-	return v, ok
+		isValid = false
 	}
-// BuildAllTemplates builds all alert templates
+	for _, monitor := range config.Monitors {
-func (c *Config) BuildAllTemplates() (err error) {
+		if !monitor.IsValid() {
-	for _, alert := range c.Alerts {
+			slog.Errorf("Invalid monitor configuration: %s", monitor.Name)
 			isValid = false
 		}
 		// Check that all Monitor alerts actually exist
 		for _, isUp := range []bool{true, false} {
 			for _, alertName := range monitor.GetAlertNames(isUp) {
 				if _, ok := config.Alerts[alertName]; !ok {
 					slog.Errorf(
 						"Invalid monitor configuration: %s. Unknown alert %s",
 						monitor.Name, alertName,
 					)
 					isValid = false
 				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
 	return isValid
 }
 // Init performs extra initialization on top of loading the config from file
 func (config *Config) Init() (err error) {
 	for name, alert := range config.Alerts {
 		alert.Name = name
 		if err = alert.BuildTemplates(); err != nil {
 			return
 		}
@@ -131,23 +146,41 @@ func (c *Config) BuildAllTemplates() (err error) {
 }
 // LoadConfig will read config from the given path and parse it
-func LoadConfig(filePath string) (Config, error) {
+func LoadConfig(filePath string) (config Config, err error) {
-	var config Config
+	data, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filePath)
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
-	if err := hclsimple.DecodeFile(filePath, nil, &config); err != nil {
+	err = yaml.Unmarshal(data, &config)
-		return config, errors.Join(ErrLoadingConfig, err)
+	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
 	slog.Debugf("Config values:\n%v\n", config)
 	// Add log alert if not present
 	if PyCompat {
 		// Initialize alerts list if not present
 		if config.Alerts == nil {
 			config.Alerts = map[string]*Alert{}
 		}
 		if _, ok := config.Alerts["log"]; !ok {
 			config.Alerts["log"] = NewLogAlert()
 		}
 	}
 	// Finish initializing configuration
-	if err := config.Init(); err != nil {
+	if err = config.Init(); err != nil {
-		return config, errors.Join(ErrConfigInit, err)
+		return
 	}
-	if err := config.IsValid(); err != nil {
+	if !config.IsValid() {
-		return config, errors.Join(ErrInvalidConfig, err)
+		err = errInvalidConfig
 		return
 	}
-	return config, nil
+	return config, err
 }
@@ -1,191 +1,143 @@
-package main_test
+package main
 import (
-	"errors"
+	"log"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 	m "git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/minitor-go/v2"
 )
 func TestLoadConfig(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
 		configPath string
-		expectedErr error
+		expectErr  bool
 		name       string
 		pyCompat   bool
 	}{
-		{"./test/does-not-exist", m.ErrLoadingConfig, "Invalid config path"},
+		{"./test/valid-config.yml", false, "Valid config file", false},
-		{"./test/invalid-config-wrong-hcl-type.hcl", m.ErrLoadingConfig, "Incorrect HCL type"},
+		{"./test/valid-default-log-alert.yml", false, "Valid config file with default log alert PyCompat", true},
-		{"./test/invalid-config-missing-alerts.hcl", m.ErrNoAlerts, "Invalid config missing alerts"},
+		{"./test/valid-default-log-alert.yml", true, "Invalid config file no log alert", false},
-		{"./test/invalid-config-missing-alerts.hcl", m.ErrInvalidConfig, "Invalid config general"},
+		{"./test/does-not-exist", true, "Invalid config path", false},
-		{"./test/invalid-config-invalid-duration.hcl", m.ErrConfigInit, "Invalid config type for key"},
+		{"./test/invalid-config-type.yml", true, "Invalid config type for key", false},
-		{"./test/invalid-config-unknown-alert.hcl", m.ErrUnknownAlert, "Invalid config unknown alert"},
+		{"./test/invalid-config-missing-alerts.yml", true, "Invalid config missing alerts", false},
-		{"./test/valid-config-default-values.hcl", nil, "Valid config file with default values"},
+		{"./test/invalid-config-unknown-alert.yml", true, "Invalid config unknown alert", false},
 		{"./test/valid-config.hcl", nil, "Valid config file"},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
-
+		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
-		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+		// Set PyCompat based on compatibility mode
-			t.Parallel()
+		PyCompat = c.pyCompat
-
+		_, err := LoadConfig(c.configPath)
 			_, err := m.LoadConfig(c.configPath)
 		hasErr := (err != nil)
 			expectErr := (c.expectedErr != nil)
-			if hasErr != expectErr || !errors.Is(err, c.expectedErr) {
+		if hasErr != c.expectErr {
-				t.Errorf("LoadConfig(%v), expected_error=%v actual=%v", c.name, c.expectedErr, err)
+			t.Errorf("LoadConfig(%v), expected_error=%v actual=%v", c.name, c.expectErr, err)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-		})
+
 		// Set PyCompat to default value
 		PyCompat = false
 	}
 }
-func TestDefaultConfig(t *testing.T) {
+func TestIntervalParsing(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := []struct {
+	log.Printf("Testing case TestIntervalParsing")
 		configPath     string
 		expectedResult m.Config
 		name           string
 	}{
 		{
 			"./test/valid-config-default-values.hcl",
 			m.Config{
 				CheckInterval:     1 * time.Second,
 				DefaultAlertAfter: 2,
 				DefaultAlertEvery: new(0),
 				DefaultAlertDown:  []string{"log_command"},
 			},
 			"override defaults",
 		},
 		{
 			"./test/valid-config.hcl",
 			m.Config{
 				CheckInterval:     30 * time.Second,
 				DefaultAlertAfter: 1,
 				DefaultAlertEvery: new(-1),
 				DefaultAlertDown:  []string{},
 			},
 			"default defaults",
 		},
 	}
-	for _, c := range cases {
+	config, err := LoadConfig("./test/valid-config.yml")
 		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
 			config, err := m.LoadConfig(c.configPath)
 	if err != nil {
-				t.Errorf("Got error when loading config file %q: %s", c.configPath, err)
+		t.Errorf("Failed loading config: %v", err)
 	}
-			// Test Config has default values
+	oneSecond := time.Second
-			if config.DefaultAlertAfter != c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertAfter {
+	tenSeconds := 10 * time.Second
-				t.Errorf("Got unexpected DefaultAlertAfter from file %q: expected=%v actual=%v", c.configPath, c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertAfter, config.DefaultAlertAfter)
+	oneMinute := time.Minute
 	// validate top level interval seconds represented as an int
 	if config.CheckInterval.Value() != oneSecond {
 		t.Errorf("Incorrectly parsed int seconds. expected=%v actual=%v", oneSecond, config.CheckInterval)
 	}
-			if *config.DefaultAlertEvery != *c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertEvery {
+	if config.Monitors[0].CheckInterval.Value() != tenSeconds {
-				t.Errorf("Got unexpected DefaultAlertEvery from file %q: expected=%v actual=%v", c.configPath, *c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertEvery, *config.DefaultAlertEvery)
+		t.Errorf("Incorrectly parsed seconds duration. expected=%v actual=%v", oneSecond, config.CheckInterval)
 	}
-			if !m.EqualSliceString(config.DefaultAlertUp, c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertUp) {
+	if config.Monitors[1].CheckInterval.Value() != oneMinute {
-				t.Errorf("Got unexpected DefaultAlertUp from file %q: expected=%v actual=%v", c.configPath, c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertUp, config.DefaultAlertUp)
+		t.Errorf("Incorrectly parsed seconds duration. expected=%v actual=%v", oneSecond, config.CheckInterval)
 	}
-			if !m.EqualSliceString(config.DefaultAlertDown, c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertDown) {
+	log.Println("-----")
 				t.Errorf("Got unexpected DefaultAlertDown from file %q: expected=%v actual=%v", c.configPath, c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertDown, config.DefaultAlertDown)
 			}
 			// Check that monitor defaults propagate
 			var defaultMonitor *m.Monitor
 			for _, monitor := range config.Monitors {
 				if monitor.Name == "Default" {
 					defaultMonitor = monitor
 				}
 			}
 			if defaultMonitor == nil {
 				t.Errorf("failed to find default monitor in %q", c.configPath)
 			}
 			if defaultMonitor.AlertAfter != c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertAfter {
 				t.Errorf("Got unexpected AlertAfter from file %q: expected=%v actual=%v", c.configPath, c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertAfter, defaultMonitor.AlertAfter)
 			}
 			if *defaultMonitor.AlertEvery != *c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertEvery {
 				t.Errorf("Got unexpected AlertEvery from file %q: expected=%v actual=%v", c.configPath, *c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertEvery, *defaultMonitor.AlertEvery)
 			}
 			if !m.EqualSliceString(defaultMonitor.AlertUp, c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertUp) {
 				t.Errorf("Got unexpected AlertUp from file %q: expected=%v actual=%v", c.configPath, c.expectedResult.DefaultAlertUp, defaultMonitor.AlertUp)
 			}
 			// NOTE: Can't compare AlertDown because default is empty and that is invalid
 		})
 	}
 }
 // TestMultiLineConfig is a more complicated test stepping through the parsing
 // and execution of mutli-line strings presented in YAML
 func TestMultiLineConfig(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
+	log.Println("Testing multi-line string config")
-	config, err := m.LoadConfig("./test/valid-verify-multi-line.hcl")
+	config, err := LoadConfig("./test/valid-verify-multi-line.yml")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("TestMultiLineConfig(load), expected=no_error actual=%v", err)
 	}
-	t.Run("Test Monitor with Indented Multi-Line String", func(t *testing.T) {
+	log.Println("-----")
-		// Verify indented heredoc is as expected
+	log.Println("TestMultiLineConfig(parse > string)")
-		expected := "echo 'Some string with stuff'\necho \"<angle brackets>\"\nexit 1\n"
+
-		actual := config.Monitors[0].ShellCommand
+	expected := "echo 'Some string with stuff'; echo \"<angle brackets>\"; exit 1\n"
 	actual := config.Monitors[0].Command.ShellCommand
 	if expected != actual {
-			t.Error("Heredoc mismatch")
+		t.Errorf("TestMultiLineConfig(>) failed")
-			t.Errorf("string expected=`%v`", expected)
+		t.Logf("string expected=`%v`", expected)
-			t.Errorf("string actual  =`%v`", actual)
+		t.Logf("string actual  =`%v`", actual)
 		t.Logf("bytes expected=%v", []byte(expected))
 		t.Logf("bytes actual  =%v", []byte(actual))
 	}
-		// Run the monitor and verify the output
+	log.Println("-----")
 	log.Println("TestMultiLineConfig(execute > string)")
 	_, notice := config.Monitors[0].Check()
 	if notice == nil {
-			t.Fatal("Did not receive an alert notice and should have")
+		t.Fatalf("Did not receive an alert notice")
 	}
 		// Verify the output of the monitor is as expected
 	expected = "Some string with stuff\n<angle brackets>\n"
 	actual = notice.LastCheckOutput
 	if expected != actual {
-			t.Error("Output mismatch")
+		t.Errorf("TestMultiLineConfig(execute > string) check failed")
-			t.Errorf("string expected=`%v`", expected)
+		t.Logf("string expected=`%v`", expected)
-			t.Errorf("string actual  =`%v`", actual)
+		t.Logf("string actual  =`%v`", actual)
-		}
+		t.Logf("bytes expected=%v", []byte(expected))
-	})
+		t.Logf("bytes actual  =%v", []byte(actual))
 	t.Run("Test Alert with Multi-Line String", func(t *testing.T) {
 		alert, ok := config.GetAlert("log_shell")
 		if !ok {
 			t.Fatal("Could not find expected alert 'log_shell'")
 	}
-		expected := "    echo 'Some string with stuff'\n    echo '<angle brackets>'\n"
+	log.Println("-----")
-		actual := alert.ShellCommand
+	log.Println("TestMultiLineConfig(parse | string)")
 	expected = "echo 'Some string with stuff'\necho '<angle brackets>'\n"
 	actual = config.Alerts["log_shell"].Command.ShellCommand
 	if expected != actual {
-			t.Error("Heredoc mismatch")
+		t.Errorf("TestMultiLineConfig(|) failed")
-			t.Errorf("string expected=`%v`", expected)
+		t.Logf("string expected=`%v`", expected)
-			t.Errorf("string actual  =`%v`", actual)
+		t.Logf("string actual  =`%v`", actual)
 		t.Logf("bytes expected=%v", []byte(expected))
 		t.Logf("bytes actual  =%v", []byte(actual))
 	}
-		actual, err = alert.Send(m.AlertNotice{})
+	log.Println("-----")
 	log.Println("TestMultiLineConfig(execute | string)")
 	actual, err = config.Alerts["log_shell"].Send(AlertNotice{})
 	if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal("Execution of alert failed")
+		t.Errorf("Execution of alert failed")
 	}
 	expected = "Some string with stuff\n<angle brackets>\n"
 	if expected != actual {
-			t.Error("Output mismatch")
+		t.Errorf("TestMultiLineConfig(execute | string) check failed")
-			t.Errorf("string expected=`%v`", expected)
+		t.Logf("string expected=`%v`", expected)
-			t.Errorf("string actual  =`%v`", actual)
+		t.Logf("string actual  =`%v`", actual)
 		t.Logf("bytes expected=%v", []byte(expected))
 		t.Logf("bytes actual  =%v", []byte(actual))
 	}
 	})
 }
@@ -1,31 +1,9 @@
-module git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/minitor-go/v2
+module git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/minitor-go
-go 1.26.0
+go 1.15
 require (
-	git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog/v2 v2.0.1
+	git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog v1.3.0
-	github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2 v2.24.0
+	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.2.1
-	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.23.2
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.4
 )
 require (
 	github.com/agext/levenshtein v1.2.1 // indirect
 	github.com/apparentlymart/go-textseg/v13 v13.0.0 // indirect
 	github.com/apparentlymart/go-textseg/v15 v15.0.0 // indirect
 	github.com/beorn7/perks v1.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.3.0 // indirect
 	github.com/google/go-cmp v0.7.0 // indirect
 	github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap v1.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/munnerz/goautoneg v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822 // indirect
 	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.2 // indirect
 	github.com/prometheus/common v0.66.1 // indirect
 	github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.16.1 // indirect
 	github.com/zclconf/go-cty v1.16.3 // indirect
 	go.yaml.in/yaml/v2 v2.4.2 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/mod v0.26.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sync v0.16.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.35.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/text v0.28.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/tools v0.35.0 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.8 // indirect
 )
@@ -1,110 +1,80 @@
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+git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog v1.3.0 h1:4Hu5PQvDrW5e3FrTS3q2iIXW0iPvhNY/9qJsqDR3K3I=
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@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
-	"git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog/v2"
+	"git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog"
 )
 var (
@@ -18,13 +17,16 @@ var (
 	// Metrics contains all active metrics
 	Metrics = NewMetrics()
 	// PyCompat enables support for legacy Python templates
 	PyCompat = false
 	// version of minitor being run
 	version = "dev"
 	errUnknownAlert = errors.New("unknown alert")
 )
-func SendAlerts(config *Config, monitor *Monitor, alertNotice *AlertNotice) error {
+func sendAlerts(config *Config, monitor *Monitor, alertNotice *AlertNotice) error {
 	slog.Debugf("Received an alert notice from %s", alertNotice.MonitorName)
 	alertNames := monitor.GetAlertNames(alertNotice.IsUp)
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ func SendAlerts(config *Config, monitor *Monitor, alertNotice *AlertNotice) erro
 	}
 	for _, alertName := range alertNames {
-		if alert, ok := config.GetAlert(alertName); ok {
+		if alert, ok := config.Alerts[alertName]; ok {
 			output, err := alert.Send(*alertNotice)
 			if err != nil {
 				slog.Errorf(
@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ func SendAlerts(config *Config, monitor *Monitor, alertNotice *AlertNotice) erro
 	return nil
 }
-func CheckMonitors(config *Config) error {
+func checkMonitors(config *Config) error {
 	// TODO: Run this in goroutines and capture exceptions
 	for _, monitor := range config.Monitors {
 		if monitor.ShouldCheck() {
@@ -74,10 +76,10 @@ func CheckMonitors(config *Config) error {
 			// Track status metrics
 			Metrics.SetMonitorStatus(monitor.Name, monitor.IsUp())
-			Metrics.CountCheck(monitor.Name, success, monitor.LastCheckMilliseconds(), hasAlert)
+			Metrics.CountCheck(monitor.Name, success, monitor.LastCheckSeconds(), hasAlert)
 			if alertNotice != nil {
-				err := SendAlerts(config, monitor, alertNotice)
+				err := sendAlerts(config, monitor, alertNotice)
 				// If there was an error in sending an alert, exit early and bubble it up
 				if err != nil {
 					return err
@@ -89,41 +91,13 @@ func CheckMonitors(config *Config) error {
 	return nil
 }
 func SendStartupAlerts(config *Config, alertNames []string) error {
 	for _, alertName := range alertNames {
 		var err error
 		alert, ok := config.GetAlert(alertName)
 		if !ok {
 			err = fmt.Errorf("unknown alert %s: %w", alertName, errUnknownAlert)
 		}
 		if err == nil {
 			_, err = alert.Send(AlertNotice{
 				AlertCount:      0,
 				FailureCount:    0,
 				IsUp:            true,
 				LastSuccess:     time.Now(),
 				MonitorName:     fmt.Sprintf("First Run Alert Test: %s", alert.Name),
 				LastCheckOutput: "",
 			})
 		}
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 func main() {
 	showVersion := flag.Bool("version", false, "Display the version of minitor and exit")
-	configPath := flag.String("config", "config.hcl", "Alternate configuration path (default: config.hcl)")
+	configPath := flag.String("config", "config.yml", "Alternate configuration path (default: config.yml)")
 	startupAlerts := flag.String("startup-alerts", "", "List of alerts to run on startup. This can help determine unhealthy alerts early on. (default \"\")")
 	flag.BoolVar(&slog.DebugLevel, "debug", false, "Enables debug logs (default: false)")
 	flag.BoolVar(&ExportMetrics, "metrics", false, "Enables prometheus metrics exporting (default: false)")
 	flag.BoolVar(&PyCompat, "py-compat", false, "Enables support for legacy Python Minitor config. Will eventually be removed. (default: false)")
 	flag.IntVar(&MetricsPort, "metrics-port", MetricsPort, "The port that Prometheus metrics should be exported on, if enabled. (default: 8080)")
 	flag.Parse()
@@ -136,7 +110,7 @@ func main() {
 	// Load configuration
 	config, err := LoadConfig(*configPath)
-	slog.OnErrFatalf(err, "Error loading config")
+	slog.OnErrFatalf(err, "Error loading config: %v", err)
 	// Serve metrics exporter, if specified
 	if ExportMetrics {
@@ -145,19 +119,11 @@ func main() {
 		go ServeMetrics()
 	}
 	if *startupAlerts != "" {
 		alertNames := strings.Split(*startupAlerts, ",")
 		err = SendStartupAlerts(&config, alertNames)
 		slog.OnErrPanicf(err, "Error running startup alerts")
 	}
 	// Start main loop
 	for {
-		err = CheckMonitors(&config)
+		err = checkMonitors(&config)
 		slog.OnErrPanicf(err, "Error checking monitors")
-		time.Sleep(config.CheckInterval)
+		time.Sleep(config.CheckInterval.Value())
 	}
 }
@@ -1,186 +1,136 @@
-package main_test
+package main
-import (
+import "testing"
 	"testing"
 	m "git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/minitor-go/v2"
 )
 // TestCheckConfig tests the checkConfig function
 // It also tests results for potentially invalid configuration. For example, no alerts
 func TestCheckMonitors(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
-		config             m.Config
+		config    Config
-		expectFailureError bool
+		expectErr bool
 		expectRecoverError bool
 		name      string
 	}{
 		{
-			config: m.Config{
+			config:    Config{},
-				CheckIntervalStr: "1s",
+			expectErr: false,
-				Monitors: []*m.Monitor{
+			name:      "Empty",
 		},
 		{
 			config: Config{
 				Monitors: []*Monitor{
 					{
 						Name:    "Success",
 						Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"true"}},
 					},
 				},
 			},
-			expectFailureError: false,
+			expectErr: false,
-			expectRecoverError: false,
+			name:      "Monitor success, no alerts",
 			name:               "No alerts",
 		},
 		{
-			config: m.Config{
+			config: Config{
-				CheckIntervalStr: "1s",
+				Monitors: []*Monitor{
 				Monitors: []*m.Monitor{
 					{
 						Name:       "Failure",
 						Command:    CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"false"}},
 						AlertAfter: 1,
 					},
 				},
 			},
 			expectErr: false,
 			name:      "Monitor failure, no alerts",
 		},
 		{
 			config: Config{
 				Monitors: []*Monitor{
 					{
 						Name:       "Success",
 						Command:    CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"ls"}},
 						alertCount: 1,
 					},
 				},
 			},
 			expectErr: false,
 			name:      "Monitor recovery, no alerts",
 		},
 		{
 			config: Config{
 				Monitors: []*Monitor{
 					{
 						Name:       "Failure",
 						Command:    CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"false"}},
 						AlertDown:  []string{"unknown"},
 						AlertAfter: 1,
 					},
 				},
 			},
 			expectErr: true,
 			name:      "Monitor failure, unknown alerts",
 		},
 		{
 			config: Config{
 				Monitors: []*Monitor{
 					{
 						Name:       "Success",
 						Command:    CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"true"}},
 						AlertUp:    []string{"unknown"},
-						AlertAfter: 1,
+						alertCount: 1,
 					},
 				},
 			},
-			expectFailureError: true,
+			expectErr: true,
-			expectRecoverError: true,
+			name:      "Monitor recovery, unknown alerts",
 			name:               "Unknown alerts",
 		},
 		{
-			config: m.Config{
+			config: Config{
-				CheckIntervalStr: "1s",
+				Monitors: []*Monitor{
 				Monitors: []*m.Monitor{
 					{
 						Name:       "Failure",
 						Command:    CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"false"}},
 						AlertDown:  []string{"good"},
 						AlertUp:    []string{"good"},
 						AlertAfter: 1,
 					},
 				},
-				Alerts: []*m.Alert{{
+				Alerts: map[string]*Alert{
-					Name:    "good",
+					"good": {
-					Command: []string{"true"},
+						Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"true"}},
 				}},
 					},
-			expectFailureError: false,
+				},
-			expectRecoverError: false,
+			},
-			name:               "Successful alert",
+			expectErr: false,
 			name:      "Monitor failure, successful alert",
 		},
 		{
-			config: m.Config{
+			config: Config{
-				CheckIntervalStr: "1s",
+				Monitors: []*Monitor{
 				Monitors: []*m.Monitor{
 					{
 						Name:       "Failure",
 						Command:    CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"false"}},
 						AlertDown:  []string{"bad"},
 						AlertUp:    []string{"bad"},
 						AlertAfter: 1,
 					},
 				},
-				Alerts: []*m.Alert{{
+				Alerts: map[string]*Alert{
 					"bad": {
 						Name:    "bad",
-					Command: []string{"false"},
+						Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"false"}},
 				}},
 					},
-			expectFailureError: true,
+				},
-			expectRecoverError: true,
+			},
-			name:               "Failing alert",
+			expectErr: true,
 			name:      "Monitor failure, bad alert",
 		},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
 		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
 		err := c.config.Init()
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Errorf("checkMonitors(%s): unexpected error reading config: %v", c.name, err)
 		}
-			for _, check := range []struct {
+		err = checkMonitors(&c.config)
 				shellCmd  string
 				name      string
 				expectErr bool
 			}{
 				{"false", "Failure", c.expectFailureError}, {"true", "Success", c.expectRecoverError},
 			} {
 				// Set the shell command for this check
 				c.config.Monitors[0].ShellCommand = check.shellCmd
 				// Run the check
 				err = m.CheckMonitors(&c.config)
 				// Check the results
 				if err == nil && check.expectErr {
 					t.Errorf("checkMonitors(%s:%s): Expected error, the code did not error", c.name, check.name)
 				} else if err != nil && !check.expectErr {
 					t.Errorf("checkMonitors(%s:%s): Did not expect an error, but we got one anyway: %v", c.name, check.name, err)
 				}
 			}
 		})
 	}
 }
 func TestFirstRunAlerts(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
 		config        m.Config
 		expectErr     bool
 		startupAlerts []string
 		name          string
 	}{
 		{
 			config: m.Config{
 				CheckIntervalStr: "1s",
 			},
 			expectErr:     true,
 			startupAlerts: []string{"missing"},
 			name:          "Unknown",
 		},
 		{
 			config: m.Config{
 				CheckIntervalStr: "1s",
 				Alerts: []*m.Alert{
 					{
 						Name:    "good",
 						Command: []string{"true"},
 					},
 				},
 			},
 			expectErr:     false,
 			startupAlerts: []string{"good"},
 			name:          "Successful alert",
 		},
 		{
 			config: m.Config{
 				CheckIntervalStr: "1s",
 				Alerts: []*m.Alert{
 					{
 						Name:    "bad",
 						Command: []string{"false"},
 					},
 				},
 			},
 			expectErr:     true,
 			startupAlerts: []string{"bad"},
 			name:          "Failed alert",
 		},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
 		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
 			err := c.config.Init()
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Errorf("sendFirstRunAlerts(%s): unexpected error reading config: %v", c.name, err)
 			}
 			err = m.SendStartupAlerts(&c.config, c.startupAlerts)
 		if err == nil && c.expectErr {
-				t.Errorf("sendFirstRunAlerts(%s): Expected error, the code did not error", c.name)
+			t.Errorf("checkMonitors(%s): Expected panic, the code did not panic", c.name)
 		} else if err != nil && !c.expectErr {
-				t.Errorf("sendFirstRunAlerts(%s): Did not expect an error, but we got one anyway: %v", c.name, err)
+			t.Errorf("checkMonitors(%s): Did not expect an error, but we got one anyway: %v", c.name, err)
-			}
+		}
 		})
 	}
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
 image: iamthefij/minitor-go:{{#if build.tag}}{{trimPrefix "v" build.tag}}{{else}}latest{{/if}}
 {{#if build.tags}}
 tags:
 {{#each build.tags}}
  - {{this}}
 {{/each}}
 {{/if}}
 manifests:
  -
    image: iamthefij/minitor-go:{{#if build.tag}}{{trimPrefix "v" build.tag}}-{{/if}}linux-amd64
    platform:
      architecture: amd64
      os: linux
  -
    image: iamthefij/minitor-go:{{#if build.tag}}{{trimPrefix "v" build.tag}}-{{/if}}linux-arm64
    platform:
      architecture: arm64
      os: linux
      variant: v8
  -
    image: iamthefij/minitor-go:{{#if build.tag}}{{trimPrefix "v" build.tag}}-{{/if}}linux-arm
    platform:
      architecture: arm
      os: linux
      variant: v7
@@ -43,14 +43,14 @@ func NewMetrics() *MinitorMetrics {
 		),
 		checkTime: prometheus.NewGaugeVec(
 			prometheus.GaugeOpts{
-				Name: "minitor_check_milliseconds",
+				Name: "minitor_check_seconds",
 				Help: "Time in miliseconds that a check ran for",
 			},
 			[]string{"monitor", "status"},
 		),
 		monitorStatus: prometheus.NewGaugeVec(
 			prometheus.GaugeOpts{
-				Name: "minitor_monitor_up_count",
+				Name: "minitor_monitor_up",
 				Help: "Status of currently responsive monitors",
 			},
 			[]string{"monitor"},
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ func (metrics *MinitorMetrics) SetMonitorStatus(monitor string, isUp bool) {
 }
 // CountCheck counts the result of a particular Monitor check
-func (metrics *MinitorMetrics) CountCheck(monitor string, isSuccess bool, ms int64, isAlert bool) {
+func (metrics *MinitorMetrics) CountCheck(monitor string, isSuccess bool, secs float64, isAlert bool) {
 	status := "failure"
 	if isSuccess {
 		status = "success"
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ func (metrics *MinitorMetrics) CountCheck(monitor string, isSuccess bool, ms int
 	metrics.checkTime.With(
 		prometheus.Labels{"monitor": monitor, "status": status},
-	).Set(float64(ms))
+	).Set(secs)
 }
 // CountAlert counts an alert
@@ -1,142 +1,61 @@
 package main
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
 	"os/exec"
 	"time"
-	"git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog/v2"
+	"git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/slog"
 )
 // Monitor represents a particular periodic check of a command
 type Monitor struct { //nolint:maligned
 	// Config values
-	CheckIntervalStr *string `hcl:"check_interval,optional"`
+	AlertAfter    int16             `yaml:"alert_after"`
-	CheckInterval    time.Duration
+	AlertEvery    int16             `yaml:"alert_every"`
-
+	CheckInterval SecondsOrDuration `yaml:"check_interval"`
-	Name         string `hcl:"name,label"`
+	Name          string
-	AlertCount   int
+	AlertDown     []string `yaml:"alert_down"`
-	AlertAfter   int      `hcl:"alert_after,optional"`
+	AlertUp       []string `yaml:"alert_up"`
-	AlertEvery   *int     `hcl:"alert_every,optional"`
+	Command       CommandOrShell
 	AlertDown    []string `hcl:"alert_down,optional"`
 	AlertUp      []string `hcl:"alert_up,optional"`
 	Command      []string `hcl:"command,optional"`
 	ShellCommand string   `hcl:"shell_command,optional"`
 	// Other values
-	failureCount      int
+	alertCount        int16
 	failureCount      int16
 	lastCheck         time.Time
 	lastSuccess       time.Time
 	lastOutput        string
 	lastCheckDuration time.Duration
 }
-// Init initializes the Monitor with default values
+// IsValid returns a boolean indicating if the Monitor has been correctly
-func (monitor *Monitor) Init(defaultAlertAfter int, defaultAlertEvery *int, defaultAlertDown []string, defaultAlertUp []string) error {
+// configured
-	// Parse the check_interval string into a time.Duration
+func (monitor Monitor) IsValid() bool {
-	if monitor.CheckIntervalStr != nil {
+	return (!monitor.Command.Empty() &&
-		var err error
+		monitor.getAlertAfter() > 0 &&
-
+		monitor.AlertDown != nil)
 		monitor.CheckInterval, err = time.ParseDuration(*monitor.CheckIntervalStr)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse check_interval duration for monitor %s: %w", monitor.Name, err)
 		}
 }
-	// Set default values for monitor alerts
+// ShouldCheck returns a boolean indicating if the Monitor is ready to be
-	if monitor.AlertAfter == 0 {
+// be checked again
 		minAlertAfter := 1
 		monitor.AlertAfter = max(defaultAlertAfter, minAlertAfter)
 	}
 	if monitor.AlertEvery == nil {
 		monitor.AlertEvery = defaultAlertEvery
 	}
 	if len(monitor.AlertDown) == 0 {
 		monitor.AlertDown = defaultAlertDown
 	}
 	if len(monitor.AlertUp) == 0 {
 		monitor.AlertUp = defaultAlertUp
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 // Validate checks that the Monitor is properly configured and returns errors if not
 func (monitor Monitor) Validate() error {
 	hasCommand := len(monitor.Command) > 0
 	hasShellCommand := monitor.ShellCommand != ""
 	hasValidAlertAfter := monitor.AlertAfter > 0
 	hasAlertDown := len(monitor.AlertDown) > 0
 	var err error
 	hasAtLeastOneCommand := hasCommand || hasShellCommand
 	if !hasAtLeastOneCommand {
 		err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf(
 			"%w: monitor %s has no command or shell_command configured",
 			ErrInvalidMonitor,
 			monitor.Name,
 		))
 	}
 	hasAtMostOneCommand := !(hasCommand && hasShellCommand)
 	if !hasAtMostOneCommand {
 		err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf(
 			"%w: monitor %s has both command and shell_command configured",
 			ErrInvalidMonitor,
 			monitor.Name,
 		))
 	}
 	if !hasValidAlertAfter {
 		err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf(
 			"%w: monitor %s has invalid alert_after value %d. Must be greater than 0",
 			ErrInvalidMonitor,
 			monitor.Name,
 			monitor.AlertAfter,
 		))
 	}
 	if !hasAlertDown {
 		err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf(
 			"%w: monitor %s has no alert_down configured. Configure one here or add a default_alert_down",
 			ErrInvalidMonitor,
 			monitor.Name,
 		))
 	}
 	return err
 }
 func (monitor Monitor) LastOutput() string {
 	return monitor.lastOutput
 }
 // ShouldCheck returns a boolean indicating if the Monitor is ready to be be checked again
 func (monitor Monitor) ShouldCheck() bool {
-	if monitor.lastCheck.IsZero() || monitor.CheckInterval == 0 {
+	if monitor.lastCheck.IsZero() {
 		return true
 	}
 	sinceLastCheck := time.Since(monitor.lastCheck)
-	return sinceLastCheck >= monitor.CheckInterval
+	return sinceLastCheck >= monitor.CheckInterval.Value()
 }
-// Check will run the command configured by the Monitor and return a status and a possible AlertNotice
+// Check will run the command configured by the Monitor and return a status
 // and a possible AlertNotice
 func (monitor *Monitor) Check() (bool, *AlertNotice) {
 	var cmd *exec.Cmd
-	if len(monitor.Command) > 0 {
+	if monitor.Command.Command != nil {
-		cmd = exec.Command(monitor.Command[0], monitor.Command[1:]...)
+		cmd = exec.Command(monitor.Command.Command[0], monitor.Command.Command[1:]...)
 	} else if monitor.ShellCommand != "" {
 		cmd = ShellCommand(monitor.ShellCommand)
 	} else {
-		slog.Fatalf("Monitor %s has no command configured", monitor.Name)
+		cmd = ShellCommand(monitor.Command.ShellCommand)
 	}
 	checkStartTime := time.Now()
@@ -149,9 +68,9 @@ func (monitor *Monitor) Check() (bool, *AlertNotice) {
 	isSuccess := (err == nil)
 	if isSuccess {
-		alertNotice = monitor.Success()
+		alertNotice = monitor.success()
 	} else {
-		alertNotice = monitor.Failure()
+		alertNotice = monitor.failure()
 	}
 	slog.Debugf("Command output: %s", monitor.lastOutput)
@@ -167,6 +86,84 @@ func (monitor *Monitor) Check() (bool, *AlertNotice) {
 	return isSuccess, alertNotice
 }
 // IsUp returns the status of the current monitor
 func (monitor Monitor) IsUp() bool {
 	return monitor.alertCount == 0
 }
 // LastCheckSeconds gives number of seconds the last check ran for
 func (monitor Monitor) LastCheckSeconds() float64 {
 	return monitor.lastCheckDuration.Seconds()
 }
 func (monitor *Monitor) success() (notice *AlertNotice) {
 	if !monitor.IsUp() {
 		// Alert that we have recovered
 		notice = monitor.createAlertNotice(true)
 	}
 	monitor.failureCount = 0
 	monitor.alertCount = 0
 	monitor.lastSuccess = time.Now()
 	return
 }
 func (monitor *Monitor) failure() (notice *AlertNotice) {
 	monitor.failureCount++
 	// If we haven't hit the minimum failures, we can exit
 	if monitor.failureCount < monitor.getAlertAfter() {
 		slog.Debugf(
 			"%s failed but did not hit minimum failures. "+
 				"Count: %v alert after: %v",
 			monitor.Name,
 			monitor.failureCount,
 			monitor.getAlertAfter(),
 		)
 		return
 	}
 	// Take number of failures after minimum
 	failureCount := (monitor.failureCount - monitor.getAlertAfter())
 	// Use alert cadence to determine if we should alert
 	switch {
 	case monitor.AlertEvery > 0:
 		// Handle integer number of failures before alerting
 		if failureCount%monitor.AlertEvery == 0 {
 			notice = monitor.createAlertNotice(false)
 		}
 	case monitor.AlertEvery == 0:
 		// Handle alerting on first failure only
 		if failureCount == 0 {
 			notice = monitor.createAlertNotice(false)
 		}
 	default:
 		// Handle negative numbers indicating an exponential backoff
 		if failureCount >= int16(math.Pow(2, float64(monitor.alertCount))-1) { //nolint:gomnd
 			notice = monitor.createAlertNotice(false)
 		}
 	}
 	// If we're going to alert, increment count
 	if notice != nil {
 		monitor.alertCount++
 	}
 	return notice
 }
 func (monitor Monitor) getAlertAfter() int16 {
 	// TODO: Come up with a better way than this method
 	// Zero is one!
 	if monitor.AlertAfter == 0 {
 		return 1
 	}
 	return monitor.AlertAfter
 }
 // GetAlertNames gives a list of alert names for a given monitor status
 func (monitor Monitor) GetAlertNames(up bool) []string {
 	if up {
@@ -176,80 +173,11 @@ func (monitor Monitor) GetAlertNames(up bool) []string {
 	return monitor.AlertDown
 }
 // IsUp returns the status of the current monitor
 func (monitor Monitor) IsUp() bool {
 	return monitor.AlertCount == 0
 }
 // LastCheckMilliseconds gives number of miliseconds the last check ran for
 func (monitor Monitor) LastCheckMilliseconds() int64 {
 	return monitor.lastCheckDuration.Milliseconds()
 }
 func (monitor *Monitor) Success() (notice *AlertNotice) {
 	if !monitor.IsUp() {
 		// Alert that we have recovered
 		notice = monitor.createAlertNotice(true)
 	}
 	monitor.failureCount = 0
 	monitor.AlertCount = 0
 	monitor.lastSuccess = time.Now()
 	return
 }
 func (monitor *Monitor) Failure() (notice *AlertNotice) {
 	monitor.failureCount++
 	// If we haven't hit the minimum failures, we can exit
 	if monitor.failureCount < monitor.AlertAfter {
 		slog.Debugf(
 			"%s failed but did not hit minimum failures. "+
 				"Count: %v alert after: %v",
 			monitor.Name,
 			monitor.failureCount,
 			monitor.AlertAfter,
 		)
 		return
 	}
 	// Take number of failures after minimum
 	failureCount := (monitor.failureCount - monitor.AlertAfter)
 	// Use alert cadence to determine if we should alert
 	switch {
 	case monitor.AlertEvery == nil, *monitor.AlertEvery == 0:
 		// Handle alerting on first failure only
 		if failureCount == 0 {
 			notice = monitor.createAlertNotice(false)
 		}
 	case *monitor.AlertEvery > 0:
 		// Handle integer number of failures before alerting
 		if failureCount%*monitor.AlertEvery == 0 {
 			notice = monitor.createAlertNotice(false)
 		}
 	default:
 		// Handle negative numbers indicating an exponential backoff
 		if failureCount >= int(math.Pow(2, float64(monitor.AlertCount))-1) { //nolint:mnd
 			notice = monitor.createAlertNotice(false)
 		}
 	}
 	// If we're going to alert, increment count
 	if notice != nil {
 		monitor.AlertCount++
 		notice.AlertCount = monitor.AlertCount
 	}
 	return notice
 }
 func (monitor Monitor) createAlertNotice(isUp bool) *AlertNotice {
 	// TODO: Maybe add something about recovery status here
 	return &AlertNotice{
 		MonitorName:     monitor.Name,
-		AlertCount:      monitor.AlertCount,
+		AlertCount:      monitor.alertCount,
 		FailureCount:    monitor.failureCount,
 		LastCheckOutput: monitor.lastOutput,
 		LastSuccess:     monitor.lastSuccess,
@@ -1,193 +1,171 @@
-package main_test
+package main
 import (
-	"errors"
+	"log"
 	"reflect"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 	m "git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/minitor-go/v2"
 )
-func TestMonitorValidate(t *testing.T) {
+// TestMonitorIsValid tests the Monitor.IsValid()
-	t.Parallel()
+func TestMonitorIsValid(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
-		monitor  m.Monitor
+		monitor  Monitor
-		expected error
+		expected bool
 		name     string
 	}{
-		{m.Monitor{AlertAfter: 1, Command: []string{"echo", "test"}, AlertDown: []string{"log"}}, nil, "Command only"},
+		{Monitor{Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"echo", "test"}}, AlertDown: []string{"log"}}, true, "Command only"},
-		{m.Monitor{AlertAfter: 1, ShellCommand: "echo test", AlertDown: []string{"log"}}, nil, "CommandShell only"},
+		{Monitor{Command: CommandOrShell{ShellCommand: "echo test"}, AlertDown: []string{"log"}}, true, "CommandShell only"},
-		{m.Monitor{AlertAfter: 1, Command: []string{"echo", "test"}}, m.ErrInvalidMonitor, "No AlertDown"},
+		{Monitor{Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"echo", "test"}}}, false, "No AlertDown"},
-		{m.Monitor{AlertAfter: 1, AlertDown: []string{"log"}}, m.ErrInvalidMonitor, "No commands"},
+		{Monitor{AlertDown: []string{"log"}}, false, "No commands"},
-		{m.Monitor{AlertAfter: -1, Command: []string{"echo", "test"}, AlertDown: []string{"log"}}, m.ErrInvalidMonitor, "Invalid alert threshold, -1"},
+		{Monitor{Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"echo", "test"}}, AlertDown: []string{"log"}, AlertAfter: -1}, false, "Invalid alert threshold, -1"},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
 		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
-		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+		actual := c.monitor.IsValid()
-			t.Parallel()
+		if actual != c.expected {
 			actual := c.monitor.Validate()
 			hasErr := (actual != nil)
 			expectErr := (c.expected != nil)
 			if hasErr != expectErr || !errors.Is(actual, c.expected) {
 			t.Errorf("IsValid(%v), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expected, actual)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-		})
+
 		log.Println("-----")
 	}
 }
 // TestMonitorShouldCheck tests the Monitor.ShouldCheck()
 func TestMonitorShouldCheck(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
+	timeNow := time.Now()
 	timeTenSecAgo := time.Now().Add(time.Second * -10)
 	timeTwentySecAgo := time.Now().Add(time.Second * -20)
-	// Create a monitor that should check every second and then verify it checks with some sleeps
+	cases := []struct {
-	monitor := m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "true", CheckInterval: time.Second}
+		monitor  Monitor
-
+		expected bool
-	if !monitor.ShouldCheck() {
+		name     string
-		t.Errorf("New monitor should be ready to check")
+	}{
 		{Monitor{}, true, "Empty"},
 		{Monitor{lastCheck: timeNow, CheckInterval: SecondsOrDuration{time.Second * 15}}, false, "Just checked"},
 		{Monitor{lastCheck: timeTenSecAgo, CheckInterval: SecondsOrDuration{time.Second * 15}}, false, "-10s"},
 		{Monitor{lastCheck: timeTwentySecAgo, CheckInterval: SecondsOrDuration{time.Second * 15}}, true, "-20s"},
 	}
-	monitor.Check()
+	for _, c := range cases {
-
+		actual := c.monitor.ShouldCheck()
-	if monitor.ShouldCheck() {
+		if actual != c.expected {
-		t.Errorf("Monitor should not be ready to check after a check")
+			t.Errorf("ShouldCheck(%v), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expected, actual)
 		}
 	time.Sleep(time.Second)
 	if !monitor.ShouldCheck() {
 		t.Errorf("Monitor should be ready to check after a second")
 	}
 }
 // TestMonitorIsUp tests the Monitor.IsUp()
 func TestMonitorIsUp(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
+	cases := []struct {
-
+		monitor  Monitor
-	// Creating a monitor that should alert after 2 failures. The monitor should be considered up until we reach two failed checks
+		expected bool
-	monitor := m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 2}
+		name     string
-	if !monitor.IsUp() {
+	}{
-		t.Errorf("New monitor should be considered up")
+		{Monitor{}, true, "Empty"},
 		{Monitor{alertCount: 1}, false, "Has alert"},
 		{Monitor{alertCount: -1}, false, "Negative alerts"},
 		{Monitor{alertCount: 0}, true, "No alerts"},
 	}
-	monitor.Check()
+	for _, c := range cases {
 		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
-	if !monitor.IsUp() {
+		actual := c.monitor.IsUp()
-		t.Errorf("Monitor should be considered up with one failure and no alerts")
+		if actual != c.expected {
 			t.Errorf("IsUp(%v), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expected, actual)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-	monitor.Check()
+		log.Println("-----")
 	if monitor.IsUp() {
 		t.Errorf("Monitor should be considered down with one alert")
 	}
 }
 // TestMonitorGetAlertNames tests that proper alert names are returned
 func TestMonitorGetAlertNames(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
-		monitor  m.Monitor
+		monitor  Monitor
 		up       bool
 		expected []string
 		name     string
 	}{
-		{m.Monitor{}, true, nil, "Empty up"},
+		{Monitor{}, true, nil, "Empty up"},
-		{m.Monitor{}, false, nil, "Empty down"},
+		{Monitor{}, false, nil, "Empty down"},
-		{m.Monitor{AlertUp: []string{"alert"}}, true, []string{"alert"}, "Return up"},
+		{Monitor{AlertUp: []string{"alert"}}, true, []string{"alert"}, "Return up"},
-		{m.Monitor{AlertDown: []string{"alert"}}, false, []string{"alert"}, "Return down"},
+		{Monitor{AlertDown: []string{"alert"}}, false, []string{"alert"}, "Return down"},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
-
+		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
 		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
 		actual := c.monitor.GetAlertNames(c.up)
-			if !reflect.DeepEqual(actual, c.expected) {
+		if !EqualSliceString(actual, c.expected) {
 			t.Errorf("GetAlertNames(%v), expected=%v actual=%v", c.name, c.expected, actual)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-		})
+
 		log.Println("-----")
 	}
 }
-func TestMonitorAlertCount(t *testing.T) {
+// TestMonitorSuccess tests the Monitor.success()
-	alertEvery := 1
+func TestMonitorSuccess(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
-		checkSuccess bool
+		monitor      Monitor
-		alertCount   int
+		expectNotice bool
 		name         string
 	}{
-		{false, 1, "First failure and first alert"},
+		{Monitor{}, false, "Empty"},
-		{false, 2, "Second failure and first alert"},
+		{Monitor{alertCount: 0}, false, "No alerts"},
-		{true, 2, "Success should preserve past alert count"},
+		{Monitor{alertCount: 1}, true, "Has alert"},
 		{false, 1, "First failure and first alert after success"},
 	}
 	// Unlike previous tests, this one requires a static Monitor with repeated
 	// calls to the failure method
 	monitor := m.Monitor{AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: &alertEvery}
 	for _, c := range cases {
-		t.Logf("Testing case %s", c.name)
+		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
-		var notice *m.AlertNotice
+		notice := c.monitor.success()
-		if c.checkSuccess {
+		hasNotice := (notice != nil)
-			notice = monitor.Success()
+
-		} else {
+		if hasNotice != c.expectNotice {
-			notice = monitor.Failure()
+			t.Errorf("success(%v), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expectNotice, hasNotice)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-		if notice == nil {
+		log.Println("-----")
 			t.Fatalf("failure(%v) expected notice, got nil", c.name)
 		}
 		if notice.AlertCount != c.alertCount {
 			t.Errorf("failure(%v), expected=%v actual=%v", c.name, c.alertCount, notice.AlertCount)
 			t.Logf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
 	}
 }
 // TestMonitorFailureAlertAfter tests that alerts will not trigger until
 // hitting the threshold provided by AlertAfter
 func TestMonitorFailureAlertAfter(t *testing.T) {
 	var alertEveryOne int = 1
 	cases := []struct {
-		monitor      m.Monitor
+		monitor      Monitor
 		numChecks    int
 		expectNotice bool
 		name         string
 	}{
-		{m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 1}, 1, true, "Empty After 1"}, // Defaults to true because and AlertEvery default to 0
+		{Monitor{AlertAfter: 1}, true, "Empty"}, // Defaults to true because and AlertEvery default to 0
-		{m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: &alertEveryOne}, 1, true, "Alert after 1: first failure"},
+		{Monitor{failureCount: 0, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 1}, true, "Alert after 1: first failure"},
-		{m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: &alertEveryOne}, 2, true, "Alert after 1: second failure"},
+		{Monitor{failureCount: 1, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 1}, true, "Alert after 1: second failure"},
-		{m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 20, AlertEvery: &alertEveryOne}, 1, false, "Alert after 20: first failure"},
+		{Monitor{failureCount: 0, AlertAfter: 20, AlertEvery: 1}, false, "Alert after 20: first failure"},
-		{m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 20, AlertEvery: &alertEveryOne}, 20, true, "Alert after 20: 20th failure"},
+		{Monitor{failureCount: 19, AlertAfter: 20, AlertEvery: 1}, true, "Alert after 20: 20th failure"},
-		{m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 20, AlertEvery: &alertEveryOne}, 21, true, "Alert after 20: 21st failure"},
+		{Monitor{failureCount: 20, AlertAfter: 20, AlertEvery: 1}, true, "Alert after 20: 21st failure"},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
 		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
-		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+		notice := c.monitor.failure()
-			t.Parallel()
+		hasNotice := (notice != nil)
 			hasNotice := false
 			for i := 0; i < c.numChecks; i++ {
 				_, notice := c.monitor.Check()
 				hasNotice = (notice != nil)
 			}
 		if hasNotice != c.expectNotice {
 			t.Errorf("failure(%v), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expectNotice, hasNotice)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-		})
+
 		log.Println("-----")
 	}
 }
@@ -195,41 +173,53 @@ func TestMonitorFailureAlertAfter(t *testing.T) {
 // on the expected intervals
 func TestMonitorFailureAlertEvery(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
-		monitor        m.Monitor
+		monitor      Monitor
-		expectedNotice []bool
+		expectNotice bool
 		name         string
 	}{
-		{m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 1}, []bool{true}, "No AlertEvery set"}, // Defaults to true because AlertAfter and AlertEvery default to nil
+		/*
 			TODO: Actually found a bug in original implementation. There is an inconsistency in the way AlertAfter is treated.
 			For "First alert only" (ie. AlertEvery=0), it is the number of failures to ignore before alerting, so AlertAfter=1
 			will ignore the first failure and alert on the second failure
 			For other intervals (ie. AlertEvery=1), it is essentially indexed on one. Essentially making AlertAfter=1 trigger
 			on the first failure.
 			For usabilty, this should be consistent. Consistent with what though? minitor-py? Or itself? Dun dun duuuunnnnn!
 		*/
 		{Monitor{AlertAfter: 1}, true, "Empty"}, // Defaults to true because AlertAfter and AlertEvery default to 0
 		// Alert first time only, after 1
-		{m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: new(0)}, []bool{true, false, false}, "Alert first time only after 1"},
+		{Monitor{failureCount: 0, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 0}, true, "Alert first time only after 1: first failure"},
 		{Monitor{failureCount: 1, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 0}, false, "Alert first time only after 1: second failure"},
 		{Monitor{failureCount: 2, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 0}, false, "Alert first time only after 1: third failure"},
 		// Alert every time, after 1
-		{m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: new(1)}, []bool{true, true, true}, "Alert every time after 1"},
+		{Monitor{failureCount: 0, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 1}, true, "Alert every time after 1: first failure"},
 		{Monitor{failureCount: 1, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 1}, true, "Alert every time after 1: second failure"},
 		{Monitor{failureCount: 1, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 1}, true, "Alert every time after 1: third failure"},
 		// Alert every other time, after 1
-		{m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: new(2)}, []bool{true, false, true, false}, "Alert every other time after 1"},
+		{Monitor{failureCount: 0, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 2}, true, "Alert every other time after 1: first failure"},
 		{Monitor{failureCount: 1, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 2}, false, "Alert every other time after 1: second failure"},
 		{Monitor{failureCount: 2, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 2}, true, "Alert every other time after 1: third failure"},
 		{Monitor{failureCount: 3, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: 2}, false, "Alert every other time after 1: fourth failure"},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
 		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
-		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+		notice := c.monitor.failure()
 			t.Parallel()
 			for i, expectNotice := range c.expectedNotice {
 				_, notice := c.monitor.Check()
 		hasNotice := (notice != nil)
-				if hasNotice != expectNotice {
+		if hasNotice != c.expectNotice {
-					t.Errorf("failed %s check %d: expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, i, expectNotice, hasNotice)
+			t.Errorf("failure(%v), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expectNotice, hasNotice)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-			}
+
-		})
+		log.Println("-----")
 	}
 }
 // TestMonitorFailureExponential tests that alerts will trigger
 // with an exponential backoff after repeated failures
 func TestMonitorFailureExponential(t *testing.T) {
 	var alertEveryExp int = -1
 	cases := []struct {
 		expectNotice bool
 		name         string
@@ -246,18 +236,20 @@ func TestMonitorFailureExponential(t *testing.T) {
 	// Unlike previous tests, this one requires a static Monitor with repeated
 	// calls to the failure method
-	monitor := m.Monitor{ShellCommand: "false", AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: &alertEveryExp}
+	monitor := Monitor{failureCount: 0, AlertAfter: 1, AlertEvery: -1}
 	for _, c := range cases {
-		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
-			// NOTE: These tests are not parallel because they rely on the state of the Monitor
+
-			_, notice := monitor.Check()
+		notice := monitor.failure()
 		hasNotice := (notice != nil)
 		if hasNotice != c.expectNotice {
 			t.Errorf("failure(%v), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expectNotice, hasNotice)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-		})
+
 		log.Println("-----")
 	}
 }
@@ -270,51 +262,53 @@ func TestMonitorCheck(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	cases := []struct {
-		monitor m.Monitor
+		monitor Monitor
 		expect  expected
 		name    string
 	}{
 		{
-			m.Monitor{AlertAfter: 1, Command: []string{"echo", "success"}},
+			Monitor{Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"echo", "success"}}},
 			expected{isSuccess: true, hasNotice: false, lastOutput: "success\n"},
 			"Test successful command",
 		},
 		{
-			m.Monitor{AlertAfter: 1, ShellCommand: "echo success"},
+			Monitor{Command: CommandOrShell{ShellCommand: "echo success"}},
 			expected{isSuccess: true, hasNotice: false, lastOutput: "success\n"},
 			"Test successful command shell",
 		},
 		{
-			m.Monitor{AlertAfter: 1, Command: []string{"total", "failure"}},
+			Monitor{Command: CommandOrShell{Command: []string{"total", "failure"}}},
 			expected{isSuccess: false, hasNotice: true, lastOutput: ""},
 			"Test failed command",
 		},
 		{
-			m.Monitor{AlertAfter: 1, ShellCommand: "false"},
+			Monitor{Command: CommandOrShell{ShellCommand: "false"}},
 			expected{isSuccess: false, hasNotice: true, lastOutput: ""},
 			"Test failed command shell",
 		},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
-
+		log.Printf("Testing case %s", c.name)
 		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
 		isSuccess, notice := c.monitor.Check()
 		if isSuccess != c.expect.isSuccess {
 			t.Errorf("Check(%v) (success), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expect.isSuccess, isSuccess)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
 		hasNotice := (notice != nil)
 		if hasNotice != c.expect.hasNotice {
 			t.Errorf("Check(%v) (notice), expected=%t actual=%t", c.name, c.expect.hasNotice, hasNotice)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-			lastOutput := c.monitor.LastOutput()
+		lastOutput := c.monitor.lastOutput
 		if lastOutput != c.expect.lastOutput {
 			t.Errorf("Check(%v) (output), expected=%v actual=%v", c.name, c.expect.lastOutput, lastOutput)
 			log.Printf("Case failed: %s", c.name)
 		}
-		})
+
 		log.Println("-----")
 	}
 }
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
 {
  "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json"
 }
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
 check_interval = "5s"
 monitor "Fake Website" {
  command = ["curl", "-s", "-o", "/dev/null", "https://minitor.mon"]
  alert_down = ["log_down", "mailgun_down", "sms_down"]
  alert_up = ["log_up", "email_up"]
  check_interval = "10s" # Must be at minimum the global `check_interval`
  alert_after = 3
  alert_every = -1 # Defaults to -1 for exponential backoff. 0 to disable repeating
 }
 monitor "Real Website" {
  command = ["curl", "-s", "-o", "/dev/null", "https://google.com"]
  alert_down = ["log_down", "mailgun_down", "sms_down"]
  alert_up = ["log_up", "email_up"]
  check_interval = "5s"
  alert_after = 3
  alert_every = -1
 }
 alert "log_down" {
  command = ["echo", "Minitor failure for {{.MonitorName}}"]
 }
 alert "log_up" {
  command = ["echo", "Minitor recovery for {{.MonitorName}}"]
 }
 alert "email_up" {
  command = ["sendmail", "me@minitor.mon", "Recovered: {monitor_name}", "We're back!"]
 }
 alert "mailgun_down" {
  shell_command = <<-EOF
  curl -s -X POST \
    -F subject="Alert! {{.MonitorName}} failed" \
    -F from="Minitor <minitor@minitor.mon>" \
    -F to=me@minitor.mon \
    -F text="Our monitor failed" \
    https://api.mailgun.net/v3/minitor.mon/messages \
    -u "api:$${MAILGUN_API_KEY}"
  EOF
 }
 alert "sms_down" {
  shell_command = <<-EOF
  curl -s -X POST -F "Body=Failure! {{.MonitorName}} has failed" \
    -F "From=$${AVAILABLE_NUMBER}" -F "To=$${MY_PHONE}" \
    "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/$${ACCOUNT_SID}/Messages" \
    -u "$${ACCOUNT_SID}:$${AUTH_TOKEN}"
  EOF
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
 ---
 check_interval: 5
 monitors:
  - name: Fake Website
    command: ["curl", "-s", "-o", "/dev/null", "https://minitor.mon"]
    alert_down: [log_down, mailgun_down, sms_down]
    alert_up: [log_up, email_up]
    check_interval: 10 # Must be at minimum the global `check_interval`
    alert_after: 3
    alert_every: -1 # Defaults to -1 for exponential backoff. 0 to disable repeating
  - name: Real Website
    command: ["curl", "-s", "-o", "/dev/null", "https://google.com"]
    alert_down: [log_down, mailgun_down, sms_down]
    alert_up: [log_up, email_up]
    check_interval: 5
    alert_after: 3
    alert_every: -1
 alerts:
  log_down:
    command: ["echo", "Minitor failure for {{.MonitorName}}"]
  log_up:
    command: ["echo", "Minitor recovery for {{.MonitorName}}"]
  email_up:
    command:
      [sendmail, "me@minitor.mon", "Recovered: {monitor_name}", "We're back!"]
  mailgun_down:
    command: >
      curl -s -X POST
      -F subject="Alert! {{.MonitorName}} failed"
      -F from="Minitor <minitor@minitor.mon>"
      -F to=me@minitor.mon
      -F text="Our monitor failed"
      https://api.mailgun.net/v3/minitor.mon/messages
      -u "api:${MAILGUN_API_KEY}"
  sms_down:
    command: >
      curl -s -X POST -F "Body=Failure! {{.MonitorName}} has failed"
      -F "From=${AVAILABLE_NUMBER}" -F "To=${MY_PHONE}"
      "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/${ACCOUNT_SID}/Messages"
      -u "${ACCOUNT_SID}:${AUTH_TOKEN}"
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Used for a basic HTTP health check
 # Avoids output from non-errors and will fail if the HTTP response is unsuccessful
 curl --silent --show-error --fail -o /dev/null "$@"
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
 check_interval = "woops, I'm not an int!"
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
 check_interval = "1s"
 monitor "Command" {
    command = ["echo", "$PATH"]
    alert_down = [ "alert_down", "log_shell", "log_command" ]
    alert_every = 0
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
 check_interval: 1
 monitors:
  - name: Command
    command: ['echo', '$PATH']
    alert_down: [ 'alert_down', 'log_shell', 'log_command' ]
    # alert_every: -1
    alert_every: 0
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
 check_interval: woops, I'm not an int!
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
 check_interval = "1s"
 monitor "Command" {
  command = ["echo", "$PATH"]
  alert_down = ["not_log"]
  alert_every = 0
 }
 alert "log" {
  command = ["true"]
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
 check_interval: 1
 monitors:
  - name: Command
    command: ['echo', '$PATH']
    alert_down: [ 'not_log']
    # alert_every: -1
    alert_every: 0
 alerts:
  log:
    command: ['true']
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
 check_interval = "1s"
 alert "log_command" {
  command = "should be a list"
 }
 monitor "Command" {
  command =  ["echo", "$PATH"]
  alert_down =  ["log_command"]
  alert_every =  2
  check_interval =  "10s"
 }
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
 check_interval = "1s"
 default_alert_down = ["log_command"]
 default_alert_every = 0
 default_alert_after = 2
 monitor "Default" {
  command = ["echo"]
 }
 monitor "Command" {
  command = ["echo", "$PATH"]
 }
 alert "log_command" {
  command = ["echo", "default", "'command!!!'", "{{.MonitorName}}"]
 }
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
 check_interval = "1s"
 alert "log_command" {
  command = ["echo", "regular", "'command!!!'", "{{.MonitorName}}"]
 }
 alert "log_shell" {
  shell_command = "echo \"Failure on {{.MonitorName}} User is $USER\""
 }
 monitor "Default" {
  command = ["echo"]
  alert_down = ["log_command"]
 }
 monitor "Command" {
  command =  ["echo", "$PATH"]
  alert_down =  ["log_command", "log_shell"]
  alert_every =  2
  check_interval =  "10s"
 }
 monitor "Shell" {
  shell_command = <<-EOF
    echo 'Some string with stuff'
    echo 'another line'
    echo $PATH
    exit 1
  EOF
  alert_down = ["log_command", "log_shell"]
  alert_after = 5
  alert_every = 0
  check_interval = "1m"
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
 ---
 check_interval: 1
 monitors:
  - name: Command
    command: ["echo", "$PATH"]
    alert_down: ["log_command", "log_shell"]
    alert_every: 0
    check_interval: 10s
  - name: Shell
    command: >
      echo 'Some string with stuff';
      echo 'another line';
      echo $PATH;
      exit 1
    alert_down: ["log_command", "log_shell"]
    alert_after: 5
    alert_every: 0
    check_interval: 1m
 alerts:
  log_command:
    command: ["echo", "regular", '"command!!!"', "{{.MonitorName}}"]
  log_shell:
    command: echo "Failure on {{.MonitorName}} User is $USER"
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
 ---
 check_interval: 1
 monitors:
  - name: Command
    command: ['echo', '$PATH']
    alert_down: ['log']
    alert_every: 0
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
 check_interval = "1s"
 monitor "Shell" {
  shell_command = <<-EOF
    echo 'Some string with stuff'
    echo "<angle brackets>"
    exit 1
  EOF
  alert_down = ["log_shell"]
  alert_after =  1
  alert_every =  0
 }
 alert "log_shell" {
  shell_command = <<EOF
    echo 'Some string with stuff'
    echo '<angle brackets>'
 EOF
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
 ---
 check_interval: 1
 monitors:
  - name: Shell
    command: >
      echo 'Some string with stuff';
      echo "<angle brackets>";
      exit 1
    alert_down: ['log_shell']
    alert_after: 1
    alert_every: 0
 alerts:
  log_shell:
    command: |
      echo 'Some string with stuff'
      echo '<angle brackets>'
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 package main
-import (
+import "testing"
 	"fmt"
 	"testing"
 )
 func TestUtilEqualSliceString(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
@@ -24,10 +21,6 @@ func TestUtilEqualSliceString(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
 		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%v %v", c.a, c.b), func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
 		actual := EqualSliceString(c.a, c.b)
 		if actual != c.expected {
 			t.Errorf(
@@ -35,6 +28,5 @@ func TestUtilEqualSliceString(t *testing.T) {
 				c.a, c.b, c.expected, actual,
 			)
 		}
 		})
 	}
 }