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Configuring Collectd for use with Riemann

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:date: 2014-10-26

:summary: How I use Collectd to push information to Riemann

:status: draft

Installing Collectd

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Installing Riemann on Debian Wheezy

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:date: 2014-10-26

:summary: How I installed Riemann on Debian Wheezy.

:status: draft

#. Install dependencies. ::

   $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre ruby-dev build-essential

#. Grab the debian package from the riemann.io front page and install (at time

   of writing version 0.2.6) ::

   $ wget http://aphyr.com/riemann/riemann_0.2.6_all.deb

   $ sudo dpkg -i riemann_0.2.6_all.deb

#. Configure Riemann. In /etc/riemann/riemann.config change the host to 0.0.0.0

   . Add the following line to /etc/default/riemann:

   EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true"

#. Start the service ::

   $ sudo service riemann start

#. Install the Riemann dashboard. ::

   $ sudo apt-get install ruby

   $ sudo gem install riemann-dash

#. Create an Upstart configuration file for riemann-dash.

   $ cat > /etc/init/riemann-dash.conf << EOF

   author "Nimrod Adar <nimrod.adar@wiser.com>"

   description "The Riemann dashboard."

   start on runlevel [2345]

   stop on runlevel [!2345]

   respawn

   respawn limit 10 10

   exec /usr/local/bin/riemann-dash

   EOF