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@@ -2,17 +2,75 @@ ============= Tiny programs to submit events to Riemann. Riemann-health, for example, submits events about the current CPU, load, -memory, and disk use. Bench submits randomly distributed metrics for load -testing. I've got a whole bunch of these internally for monitoring Redis, Riak, -queues, etc. Most have internal configuration dependencies, so it'll be a while -before I can extract them for re-use. +memory, and disk use. Also available is `riemann-bench`, which submits +randomly distributed metrics for load testing. Get started -========== +=========== ``` bash 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 + +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: + +```bash +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. + +There are also a number of additional, stand-alone tools, contained in +the [Riemann GitHub account](https://github.com/riemann/). + +License +======= + +The MIT License + +Copyright (c) 2011-2016 Kyle Kingsbury +