application log-events alert

Flume

• flume is streaming api with capabilities of sending the events to multiple backend datastores like file, elasticsearch etc

• EventNotifier is an api to send alerts to business people or devs if any kind of events are consumed from a log file, or whatever source even before writing to the backend data stores.

• currently it sends alerts to #slack-channel

uses

 client.sources.source_1.interceptors = alertBusinessPeople
 client.sources.source_1.interceptors.alertBusinessPeople.regex = .*error.*
 client.sources.source_1.interceptors.alertBusinessPeople.toChannel = "#application-interuptions"
 client.sources.source_1.interceptors.alertBusinessPeople.secretKey = "jfbjghjrwhgw"

TODO

  client.sources.source_1.interceptors = alertBusinessPeople
  client.sources.source_1.interceptors.alertBusinessPeople.regex = .*error.*
  client.sources.source_1.interceptors.alertBusinessPeople.from = "myapp@business.com"
  client.sources.source_1.interceptors.alertBusinessPeople.toChannel = "alert@business.com"
  client.sources.source_1.interceptors.alertBusinessPeople.secretKey = "mail.host.com"

to integrate with slack, create an app(client) at https://api.slack.com/ that will provide

• api identifier
• api secret

To use Web API, https://api.slack.com/apps/A593Z4P2L/incoming-webhooks

curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data '{"alertMessage":"Kafka crashed!"}' YOUR_WEBHOOK_URL_HERE

Web API uses a channel.

Refs

https://api.slack.com/incoming-webhooks