[NIFI-987] Add Processor for Writing Events to Riemann

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: Extensions
• Assignee: Ricky Saltzer
• Reporter: Ricky Saltzer
• Created: 22/Sep/15 15:09
• Updated: 28/Dec/15 21:17
• Resolved: 28/Dec/15 21:17

Description

Riemann (http://riemann.io) is a new framework for monitoring distributed systems. It's particular useful for sending ad-hoc events such as, heartbeats and metrics. It would be nice if NiFi had a PutRiemann processor for writing events using the NiFi expression language.

A simple use case would be a data flow that repeatedly checks specific services over TCP, HTTP, etc and checks into Riemann. Another example would be detecting a blip in events coming down a stream using a simple event heartbeat mechanism. I'll post a couple visuals to help make these examples more concrete.

I have an initial PutRiemann processor made. I will post the patch via a Github pull request later today.