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Tool Time with John

John Vincent
February 16, 2012

Tool Time with John

Presentation at Atlanta Puppet User's Group

John Vincent

February 16, 2012
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  1. Logging is Broken(ish) • Commercial options are expensive • Syslog

    isn't flexible enough • Log lines are just data points with a timestamp (event)
  2. Logstash • Unix pipe on steroids • If it has

    a timestamp, send it to Logstash • Slice it, Dice it, Munge it, Transform it • Now spit it out • This isn't a Logstash talk.
  3. Build something • Sockets the way you think sockets should

    work • Usable from almost every language • Flow independent • Captures common patterns • Freaking fast
  4. Logstash Filters with ZeroMQ • You need to do something

    unique? • There's not a plugin yet? • Specific to your company? • Don't know Ruby? Write your own! (in whatever language you like)
  5. Statsd • Open sourced by Etsy last year • Simple

    UDP proxy to Graphite • Different “data types” • Client and Server implementations in almost every language
  6. Graphite • Open sourced by Orbitz • Makes pretty pictures

    of data • Does dashboards • Simple API • Does realtime updates • Alternate dashboards available and easy to create
  7. Recap • Always be adding tools to your toolbelt •

    See a cool project? Bookmark it • Evernote/Read it Later are your friends • Always be hacking. Keep your skills fresh.
  8. Links! • Logstash – http://logstash.net • ZeroMQ – http://zeromq.org •

    Statsd – http://github.com/etsy/statsd • Graphite – http://graphite.wikidot.com • Evernote – http://evernote.com