Suppressing Riemann alerts during planned work by injecting maintenance events into the index and wrapping notifications with a check function
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Managing maintenance with Riemann Looking up events in the Riemann index Using riemann.index/search inside a custom mailer body to pull related events from the Riemann index and attach context to email alerts
Connecting Riemann and Zookeeper Looking up HAProxy node counts in Zookeeper from a Riemann stream so monitoring thresholds update without waiting for configuration convergence
Just Enough Clojure for Riemann A crash course in Clojure syntax, collections, functions, and namespaces that gets you ready to write Riemann configuration files
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
The Art of Monitoring Announcing a hands on book on building modern, scalable monitoring with Riemann, Graphite, Sensu, Flapjack, and Logstash
Riemann Sample Configurations Asking the community to contribute real Riemann configurations to a shared GitHub repository to help newcomers learn the Clojure based config
Using Riemann for Metrics Installing Graphite, configuring Carbon retention schemas, and forwarding Riemann events to generate metric graphs from Nginx status data
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
An Introduction to Riemann Installing Riemann and walking through its event-centric push model for aggregating, processing, and alerting on events from hosts and applications
Sending events from Puppet to Riemann A Puppet report processor that sends run status and metrics to a Riemann server using the riemann-client gem