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Introduction to Alerta: Open Source Aggregated Alerts

There are a number of platforms available these days to assist operations in terms of dealing with alerts. Namely Pagerduty, VictorOps and OpsGenie. These are unfortunately pay for tools. These tools are known as monitoring aggregation I was looking through the integrations of elastalert and found that there is an integration for alerta.io, so I […]

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Allowing unverified HTTP Post’s by Elastalert

I am using Praeco as a frontend for the Elastalert API which relies on Elastalert. The problem I faced was that sending unverified requests failed, as elastalert didn’t allow verfiy=False. I searched the Elastalert code and found the place the request is being made, it is in alerts.py file, the class HTTPPostAlerter. I changed: response […]

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ChatOps

The actual elastalert code running in Praeco Elastalert

If you go into the docker instance there will be 3 seperate versions of the code: / # find . -name alerts.py ./opt/elastalert/build/lib/elastalert/alerts.py ./opt/elastalert/elastalert/alerts.py ./usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/elastalert-0.1.39-py2.7.egg/elastalert/alerts.py   The one that is actually running elastalert is: /opt/elastalert/elastalert/alerts.py    

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ELK

Kibana Metricbeat, Packetbeat and Filebeat no data showing index is readonly

Ever had the case where you stop seeing data in elasticsearch via kibana? You might see something like the above. Perhaps your server ran out of disk space needed to run the instance…if that is the case your index has probably gone read only. Check your logs: journalctl -e logstash if you see this result: […]

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DevOps machine learning

Reducing and Learning from Monitoring Alerts in Business Environments

How often is it the case where monitoring alerts and notifications get out of hand in an organisation. The alerts become too many Alert only via a single channel Alert for minor and major severity in the same manor This takes time off engineers hands for improving and fixing systems when they constantly have to […]