Notification on recovery without a problem notification beforehand

Hi everyone!

I try to send a recovery notification when a host recovers from a problem without sending a problem beforehand.
As far as I understand this should work following the documentation.
https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-2/latest/doc/03-monitoring-basics/#notifications

Only users who have been notified of a problem before (`Warning`, `Critical`, `Unknown` states for services, `Down` for hosts) will receive `Recovery` notifications.

Icinga 2 v2.10 allows you to configure `Acknowledgement` and/or `Recovery` without a `Problem` notification. These notifications will be sent without any problem notifications beforehand, and can be used for e.g. ticket systems.

This works fine but also reports problems:

template Notification "host-recovery-notification" {
  states = [ Up, Down ]
  types = [ Problem, Recovery ]

  period = "24x7"
  interval = 0
}

This is what I need but doesn`t work

template Notification "host-recovery-notification" {
  states = [ Up, Down ]
  types = [ Recovery ]

  period = "24x7"
  interval = 0
}

Is there a problem with the version v2.10 vs r2.13 or do I misconceive something here?
Thank you for your help
Andi

System information:
icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon (version: r2.13.1-1)

  • Platform: Ubuntu*
  • Platform version: 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)*
  • Kernel: Linux*
  • Kernel version: 5.4.0-88-generic*
  • Architecture: x86_64*

Build information:

  • Compiler: GNU 9.3.0*
  • Build host: runner-hh8q3bz2-project-508-concurrent-0*
  • OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020*

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