2015

• Custom emails with Riemann

  Using the Riemann mailer plug-in's :subject and :body options to build custom email alerts driven by event fields like host

  March 26, 2015 | 2 min read |

  # devops # riemann # monitoring
• Treat GitHub Wiki like a repository

  A quick note that every GitHub wiki is a Git repository so you can clone it directly instead of scraping the content

  February 26, 2015 | 1 min read |

  # github # wiki # git
• The Art of Monitoring

  Announcing a hands on book on building modern, scalable monitoring with Riemann, Graphite, Sensu, Flapjack, and Logstash

  February 1, 2015 | 3 min read |

  # monitoring # devops # metrics +3 more
• Riemann Sample Configurations

  Asking the community to contribute real Riemann configurations to a shared GitHub repository to help newcomers learn the Clojure based config

  January 31, 2015 | 1 min read |

  # riemann # devops # sysadmin +1 more
• Using Riemann for Metrics

  Installing Graphite, configuring Carbon retention schemas, and forwarding Riemann events to generate metric graphs from Nginx status data

  January 18, 2015 | 10 min read |

  # riemann # devops # monitoring +3 more
• A Monitoring Maturity Model

  A simple three stage model, manual, reactive, and proactive, for describing how organisations evolve their monitoring practices

  January 12, 2015 | 4 min read |

  # monitoring # sysadmin # devops
• Using Riemann for Fault Detection

  Using Riemann streams and the index to detect down services via TTL expiry, then routing alerts to email and PagerDuty

  January 4, 2015 | 8 min read |

  # riemann # devops # monitoring +2 more