Reporting Metrics to Apache Kafka and Monitoring with Consumers

Hi, we started a new github project for using Kafka as the central point
for all application and infrastructure metrics
https://github.com/stealthly/metrics-kafka/.

We started off with implementing a Metrics Reporter (for Coda Hale's
metrics) which produces (reports) the statistics to a Kafka topic. We also
created an example consumer for monitoring those metrics using Riemann.
More details in the blog post
http://allthingshadoop.com/2014/04/18/metrics-kafka/ and more producers to
follow (probably consumers too).

Thoughts, comments, questions, feedback, tomatoes, pull requests are all
welcome =8^)

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Joe Stein
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Big Data Open Source Security LLC
http://www.stealth.ly
Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop>
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