Summary of Rust agent idea for the Hackathon

[Saifi]

Currently riemann ships with the following agents.

riemann-apache-status riemann-json-http
riemann-bench riemann-kvminstance
riemann-cloudant riemann-memcached
riemann-consul riemann-net
riemann-dash riemann-nginx-status
riemann-dir-files-count riemann-ntp
riemann-dir-space riemann-proc
riemann-diskstats riemann-redis
riemann-docker riemann-redis-slowlog
riemann-fd riemann-sockstat
riemann-freeswitch riemann-varnish
riemann-haproxy riemann-zookeeper
riemann-health

As a starting point we are going to dissect, understand 'riemann-health' agent and how it interacts with Riemman server over gRPC.

Next, we come up with a design for a Rust based riemann-health agent. Then we implement the same.

We have succeeded when we have achieved feature and functional parity with existing riemann-health written in Ruby.

We should be able to hack this across two days.

All thoughts and suggestions are welcome.

warm regards
Saifi.