Experimenting riemann monitoring system

Source From: BLog.CripperZ.SG http://blog.cripperz.sg/experimenting-riemann-monitoring-system/

I was previously task to look into viable monitoring system that is flexible enough to suite into our plans of having a well monitored and orchestrated infrastructure from apps to servers – possibly all on open-source instruments. I have yet to update the specific test and installation methods / shortcuts (if any) but i will find time to do so.

I recently went into check_mk + nagios and possibly nagios + collectd + graphite kind of setup, with orchestration from ansible. I must say i am a newbie to some of these open-source tools but this adventure has taught me more than i expected to know / learn and it has somewhat grew the curiosity and interest of me in getting into depth on certain areas.

Well on this post, i am sharing Riemann monitoring system which seem very flexible and promising though i must say, getting ruby to work nicely on Ubuntu can be quite a pain initially for a newbie who are not exposed to Ruby & Rails, Clojure kind of environment.

So future post on Riemann will shared soon. Meanwhile have a look at Riemann’s introduction video from Riemann.io (official site).