Asking the community to contribute real Riemann configurations to a shared GitHub repository to help newcomers learn the Clojure based config
$ cd ~/posts/2015/
Riemann Sample Configurations Using Riemann for Metrics Installing Graphite, configuring Carbon retention schemas, and forwarding Riemann events to generate metric graphs from Nginx status data
A Monitoring Maturity Model A simple three stage model, manual, reactive, and proactive, for describing how organisations evolve their monitoring practices
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
$ cd ~/posts/2014/
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
The Docker Book 1.4.1 released! Version 1.4.1 of The Docker Book is out, with updates and fixes for the Docker 1.4.1 release plus accumulated reader errata
Monitoring Survey - Data Releasing the anonymised CSV source data from the 2014 monitoring survey along with notes on the R and ggplot2 analysis