Evaluated it, and ultimately rejected it for a couple of reasons:
- You must pick up Clojure to understand and configure Riemann (we're not a Clojure shop, so this is a non-trivial requirement)
- Config file isn't a config file, it's an executed bit of Clojure code
- Riemann is not a replacement for an alerting mechanism, it's another signal for alerting mechanisms (though since it's Clojure and the configuration file is a Clojure script, you can absolutely hack it into becoming an alerting system)
- Riemann is not a replacement for a trend graphing mechanism.
- There are other solutions which can be piped together to get the 80% of the functionality we wanted from Riemann (Graphite + Skyline) in much less invested time
- You must pick up Clojure to understand and configure Riemann (we're not a Clojure shop, so this is a non-trivial requirement)
- Config file isn't a config file, it's an executed bit of Clojure code
- Riemann is not a replacement for an alerting mechanism, it's another signal for alerting mechanisms (though since it's Clojure and the configuration file is a Clojure script, you can absolutely hack it into becoming an alerting system)
- Riemann is not a replacement for a trend graphing mechanism.
- There are other solutions which can be piped together to get the 80% of the functionality we wanted from Riemann (Graphite + Skyline) in much less invested time
Skyline link: https://github.com/etsy/skyline