NAME Riemann::Client - A Perl client for the Riemann event system SYNOPSIS use Riemann::Client; # host and port are optional my $r = Riemann::Client->new( host => 'localhost', port => 5555, ); # send a simple event $r->send({service => 'testing', metric => 2.5}); # Or a more complex one $r->send({ host => 'web3', # defaults to Net::Domain::hostfqdn() service => 'api latency', state => 'warn', metric => 63.5, time => time() - 10, # defaults to time() description => '63.5 milliseconds per request', }); # send several events at once my @events = ( { service => 'service1', ... }, { service => 'service2', ... }, ); $r->send(@events); # Get all the states from the server my $res = $r->query('true'); # Or specific states matching a query $res = $r->query('host =~ "%.dc1" and state = "critical"'); DESCRIPTION Riemann::Client sends events and/or queries to a Riemann server. METHODS new Returns an instance of the Riemann::Client. These are the optional arguments accepted: host The Riemann server. Defaults to "localhost" port Port where the Riemann server is listening. Defaults to 5555 proto By default Riemann::Client will use TCP to communicate over the network. You can force the usage of UDP setting this argument to 'udp'. UDP datagrams have a maximum size of 16384 bytes by Riemann's default. If you force the usage of UDP and try to send a larger message, an exception will be raised. In TCP mode, the client will try to reconnect to the server in case the connection is lost. send Accepts a list of events (as hashrefs) and sends them over the wire to the server. In TCP mode, it will die if there are errors while communicating with the server. In case the connection is lost, it will try to reconnect. query Accepts a string and returns a message. MESSAGE SPECS This is the specification of the messages in Google::ProtocolBuffers format: message State { optional int64 time = 1; optional string state = 2; optional string service = 3; optional string host = 4; optional string description = 5; optional bool once = 6; repeated string tags = 7; optional float ttl = 8; } message Event { optional int64 time = 1; optional string state = 2; optional string service = 3; optional string host = 4; optional string description = 5; repeated string tags = 7; optional float ttl = 8; repeated Attribute attributes = 9; optional sint64 metric_sint64 = 13; optional double metric_d = 14; optional float metric_f = 15; } message Query { optional string string = 1; } message Msg { optional bool ok = 2; optional string error = 3; repeated State states = 4; optional Query query = 5; repeated Event events = 6; } message Attribute { required string key = 1; optional string value = 2; } SEE ALSO * All About Riemann * Ruby client AUTHOR * Miquel Ruiz COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Miquel Ruiz. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.