Sandbox with traffic simulator to play with Riemann in VirtualBox with Vagrant

This will install and configure for you:

Java 7 (Oracle)
Riemann server with basic configuration
Riemann Dashboard with some pre-configured graphs
Riemann Tools
Riemann Health Daemon, that will send every 10 seconds cpu/memory/load/disk status to Riemann server
Ports 5555 (riemann-server), 5556(UDP for riemann) and 4567 (dashboard) will be forwarded
Mailcatcher to inspect the mails from Riemann (on localhost)

Requirements

VirtualBox
min. Vagrant 1.1

Installation

$ git clone git://github.com/mindreframer/vagrant-puppet-riemann.git
$ cd vagrant-puppet-riemann

# start vagrant
# java installation could take a while, it is bigger than 100MB
$ vagrant up

# ssh into your VM
$ vagrant ssh

# open browser at http://localhost:1080/ (mailcatcher)
# open browser at http://localhost:4567/ (dashboard)

Run Puppet, after you have changed modules

$ runpuppet

Generate some events for Riemann (a rather naive approach, but you'll have some data to play with)

# open localhost:4567 in your browser

# simulate health checks reports
$ riemann-simulator -s health

# simulate traffic
$ riemann-simulator -s web

# simulate all traffic
$ riemann-simulator

Playing with Dashboard

# press `?` to have the overview of available shortcuts

Important files to play with:

server/riemann.config.erb -> riemann server
dashboard/config.json.erb -> dashboard
simulators/riemann-simulator.erb -> simulator script

Credits

Kyle Kingsbury - the Riemann author
Yukihiro Matsumoto - for Ruby
Rich Hickey - for Clojure
Linus Torvalds - for Linux
Mitchell Hashimoto - the Vagrant author
Luke Kanies - the Puppet author
Oracle cough, for keeping VirtualBox opensource
Oracle cough, for keeping Java 7 free
Alex Dergachev - GIF-Screencast for free on OSX: https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207

Resources

Riemann-Users Group - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/riemann-users

riemann.config documentation - http://aphyr.github.com/riemann/api/riemann.config.html

Riemann HowTo - http://riemann.io/howto.html

Riemann streams intro - http://rrees.me/2013/04/20/getting-started-with-riemann-stream-processing/

Amara metrics server - a similar Vagrant repo - https://github.com/pculture/amara-metrics - http://labs.amara.org/2012-07-16-metrics.html

Application specific host grouping in Riemann-dash - https://gist.github.com/aaronfeng/4583640

Guardians Config - https://github.com/guardian/riemann-config