HOWTO: install graylog2 on CentOS 5 with RVM + Passenger
Graylog2 is an open-source self-hosted centralized log management tool. Think of it as a do-it-yourself version of loggly.com, or perhaps a simpler alternative to Splunk. Logs are stored in a MongoDB...
View ArticleCollectd-Graphite plugin. Bringing together two great tools
Collectd is a powerful tool for gathering metrics using its wide range of plugins, such as cpu, disk, load, memory, etc. But there is a lack of good frontend tools for visualizing the data collectd...
View ArticleCharlie Sheen plugin for the Hudson/Jenkins CI Server
I built a Charlie Sheen “Persona” plugin for our Hudson continuous integration server at work, which is now available on my github page. If you’re familiar with the Chuck Norris plugin, then you know...
View ArticleAlternative skins for Skype 5 and 6 on Mac OSX
The consensus at this point is that Skype 5 on Mac OSX is ugly and wastes a ton of screen space for no good reason (all of this is true, btw.) But, you don’t have to live with the ugliness. It’s not...
View Article#monitoringsucks – but it doesn’t have to
On May 26, 2011, John Vincent, aka @lusis, started a conversation with a simple tweet that led to an hour-plus chat on IRC freenode between some very smart folks. The IRC channel was supposed to go...
View Articlegroovy-statsdclient
In an attempt to learn some Groovy and Gradle I wrote an implementation of a Statsd client in groovy. It’s similar to other statsd clients in other languages and supports the typical increment(),...
View ArticleList of statsd server implementations
Statsd is a simple client/server mechanism from the folks at Etsy that allows operations and development teams to easily feed a variety of metrics into a Graphite system. For more info on statsd read...
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Getting started with the Sensu monitoring framework
(5/15/2012) NOTE: This guide has been superseded by the official ‘Install Guide‘ doc on the Sensu wiki. The new process utilizes the simpler Omnibus-style Sensu packages and covers installation on...
View ArticleRe-use Nagios plugins in Sensu for quick profit
In my previous article I mentioned a key strength of Sensu is the ability to re-use existing Nagios plugins. This is a powerful feature of Sensu. Nagios has been around for at least 1000 years...
View ArticleSensu and Graphite
Updated October 16, 2012: Removed “passive”:”true” from the graphite amqp handler definition in Sensu. This is too brittle. Sensu will fail to start unless graphite has started first and created the...
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