For Autoheal label "true" must be quoted in docker compose

[benyjr]

Is there a pinned issue for this?

• I have read the pinned issues and could not find my issue

Is there an existing or similar issue/discussion for this?

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• I have searched the existing discussions

Is there any comment in the documentation for this?

• I have read the documentation, especially the FAQ and Troubleshooting parts

Is this related to a provider?

• I have checked the provider repo for issues
• My issue is NOT related to a provider

Are you using the latest release?

• I am using the latest release

Have you tried using the dev branch latest?

• I have tried using dev branch

Docker run config used

transmission-openvpn:
image: haugene/transmission-openvpn:latest
container_name: Transmission-OpenVPN
restart: unless-stopped
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
logging:
driver: json-file
options:
max-size: 10m
ports:
- 33890:33890
devices:
- /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun
privileged: true
dns:
- 103.86.96.100
- 103.86.99.100
environment:
- HEALTH_CHECK_HOST=github.com
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- LOCAL_NETWORK=192.168.50.0/24
- TZ=America/Toronto
- OPENVPN_PROVIDER=NORDVPN
- OPENVPN_USERNAME=name
- OPENVPN_PASSWORD=password
- NORDVPN_COUNTRY=CA
- NORDVPN_CATEGORY=legacy_p2p
- TRANSMISSION_RPC_PORT=33890
- TRANSMISSION_WEB_UI=transmissionic
- TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/storage/videos/television/Downloads-TV/
- TRANSMISSION_INCOMPLETE_DIR=/storage/videos/television/Downloads-TV/
- TRANSMISSION_RPC_URL=/transmission/
- TRANSMISSION_RPC_USERNAME=name
- TRANSMISSION_RPC_PASSWORD=password
volumes:
- /home/beny/.config/:/config # where transmission-home is stored
- /home/beny/TV_Torrents:/data # where the watch directory is located
- /storage/videos:/storage/videos # where transmission will store the data
- /home/beny/:/home/beny/ # where transmission will store the data
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

Current Behavior

willfarrell/docker-autoheal is ignoring the unhealthy transmission container.

Expected Behavior

The Autoheal container should restart the unhealthy container.

How have you tried to solve the problem?

According to this article: https://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2023/08/28/docker-autoheal.html and this bug report willfarrell/docker-autoheal#110 the label true should be inquotation marks as "true" in order to be seen as true and not True. Autoheal is specfically looking for true in lowercase and it is being interpreted as True since the quotes are missing.

Log output

No logs, Autoheal isn't seeing the issue so nothing is being done.

HW/SW Environment

- OS: Ubunto 24.04.1
- Docker: 27.4.1, build b9d17ea

Anything else?

Line 130 of the Dockerfile should appear as follows:

LABEL autoheal="true"

[benyjr]

Fix submitted here: #2903

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.

[ovizii]

I have the reverse problem: I want to disable autoheal and none of these seem to work:

    labels:
      - autoheal="false"


    labels:
      - autoheal=false

[benyjr]

@ovizii when you implemented the Autoheal container, what did you set AUTOHEAL_CONTAINER_LABEL: to be?

The official documentation uses both autoheal or autoheal-app as examples.

autoheal="false" in the target container will only work if you set AUTOHEAL_CONTAINER_LABEL: autoheal in the Autoheal container. The label can be anything you want, but you have to be consistent.

[ovizii]

Apologies, it seems I didn't fully read the autoheal docs, I only saw this thread. My autoheal does heal every container, I only now noticed I have to tell autoheal which tags to look for. I mistakenly assumed, just by setting this tag mentioned here i could make autoheal ignore this container.