agent restart does not do configtest and can silently fail

[ssbarnea]

agent restart does not do configtest and can silently fail.

[remh]

Hi @ssbarnea
Can you tell us more what bad configuration made the restart fail ?
The agent didn't start at all or just some integrations were not properly configured and didn't work.
Thanks!

[ssbarnea]

That's quite easy to replicate, make a modification in one config file, something wrong and restart the agent. You will see nothing wrong on the console, that's misleading.

Instead, I propose this enhancement, to first run a configtest and to perform the restart only if configtest succeeds. This will improve the experience quite a lot.

Also, please add an alias name "configtest" for the "configcheck", nginx and other services are already using "confitest" and it's a shame not to reuse the same naming convention.