From c47576637f2de7f917be20ea6c4698bcb9c60609 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Wrede <andreas@wrede.ca>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 14:54:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: suppress alerts for unwatched hosts

Hosts with watch: false in config no longer appear in the Alerts page
or nav bar alert counts. Events still appear in the Log of Events.
Hosts without a config entry default to watch: false.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 hbd/server/hbdclass.py | 2 +-
 hbd/server/http.py     | 4 ++++
 hbd/server/udp.py      | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hbd/server/hbdclass.py b/hbd/server/hbdclass.py
index 4b97a49..d4d22b0 100644
--- a/hbd/server/hbdclass.py
+++ b/hbd/server/hbdclass.py
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ class Host:
             Host.hosts[name] = self
         self.num = num
         self.dyn = False
-        self.watched = True
+        self.watched = False
         self.upcount = 0
         self.interval = 0
         self.doesack = -1
diff --git a/hbd/server/http.py b/hbd/server/http.py
index 7c33fa2..bb8017d 100644
--- a/hbd/server/http.py
+++ b/hbd/server/http.py
@@ -325,6 +325,8 @@ async def start(
         from .threshold import AlertLevel
         critical = warning = ok = 0
         for host in hbdclass.Host.hosts.values():
+            if not host.watched:
+                continue
             if not _can_operate_host(user, host):
                 continue
             levels = {s.level for s in host.alert_states.values()}
@@ -595,6 +597,8 @@ async def start(
         all_alerts = []
 
         for hostname, host in hbdclass.Host.hosts.items():
+            if not host.watched:
+                continue
             if not _can_view_host(user, host):
                 continue
             if threshold_checker:
diff --git a/hbd/server/udp.py b/hbd/server/udp.py
index 726477b..6470bb2 100644
--- a/hbd/server/udp.py
+++ b/hbd/server/udp.py
@@ -333,6 +333,8 @@ def handle_datagram(msg: dict, addr, transport, ctx: dict):
         # Use new config function to check dyndns
         dyndnshosts = config_mod.get_dyndnshosts(cfg)
         host.dyn = uname in dyndnshosts
+        watchhosts = config_mod.get_watchhosts(cfg)
+        host.watched = uname in watchhosts
         # Apply user-access settings from config
         access = config_mod.get_host_access(cfg, uname)
         host.apply_access(access["owner"], access["managers"], access["monitors"])