Let me guess you are using django and may have just done an upgrade to django 2.2.x or 3.x in order to stay up to date and have the latest security updates. However you now have this exception to deal with… ImproperlyConfigured: SQLite 3.8.3 or later is required (found 3.7.17) This means you will need […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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: […]