Riemann Tools

Tiny programs to submit events to Riemann.

Riemann-health, for example, submits events about the current CPU, load, memory, and disk use. Also available is riemann-bench, which submits randomly distributed metrics for load testing.

Get started

gem install riemann-tools
riemann-health --host my.riemann.server

Riemann-tools programs

This repository contains a number of different programs. Some of them ship with the riemann-tools gem, including:

• riemann-apache-status - Apache monitoring.
• riemann-dir-files-count - File counts.
• riemann-freeswitch - FreeSwitch monitoring.
• riemann-memcached - Monitor Memcache.
• riemann-proc - Linux process monitoring.
• riemann-bench - Load testing for Riemann.
• riemann-dir-space - Directory space monitoring.
• riemann-haproxy - Monitor HAProxy.
• riemann-net - Network interface monitoring.
• riemann-varnish - Monitor Varnish.
• riemann-cloudant - Cloudant monitoring.
• riemann-diskstats - Disk statistics.
• riemann-health - General CPU, memory, disk and load monitoring.
• riemann-nginx-status - Monitor Nginx.
• riemann-zookeeper - Monitor Zookeeper.
• riemann-consul - Monitor Consul.
• riemann-fd - Linux file descriptor use.
• riemann-kvminstance - Monitor KVM instances.
• riemann-ntp - Monitor NTP.
• riemann-portcheck - Monitor open TCP ports.

Please note that the following gems are BFortress custom gems:

• riemann-passenger - Monitor Passenger
• riemann-uptime - Monitor uptime
• riemann-services - Monitor a set list of running services

Also contained in the repository are a number of stand-alone monitoring tools, which are shipped as separate gems.

Riemann stand-alone tools

Use these tools by installing their individual gems, usually named for the specific tool, for example:

gem install riemann-aws

To install the AWS tools.

• riemann-aws - Monitor various AWS services.
• riemann-elasticsearch - Monitor Elasticsearch.
• riemann-mesos - Monitor Mesos.
• riemann-rabbitmq - Monitor RabbitMQ.
• riemann-docker - Monitor Docker.
• riemann-marathon - Monitor Marathon.
• riemann-munin - Monitor Munin.
• riemann-riak - Monitor Riak.
• riemann-chronos - Monitor Chronos.

There are also a number of additional, stand-alone tools, contained in the Riemann GitHub account.

Docker Images

You can find Docker images for the tools here.

Build status

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2011-2016 Kyle Kingsbury