# Basic site monitoring with Riemann

DevFeed: [Basic site monitoring with Riemann](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/basic-site-monitoring-with-riemann-32096.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://adambard.com/blog/basic-website-monitoring-with-riemann/>)

Published: 2016-08-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Adam Bard](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/adam-bard.md>)

Topics: [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ubuntu.md>), [Digital Ocean](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/digital-ocean.md>), [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>)

Tags: [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [digital-ocean](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-ocean.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [systemd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systemd.md>), [ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ubuntu.md>)

## AI overview

A practical guide to setting up Riemann for basic site and system health monitoring. It covers installing Riemann on an Ubuntu DigitalOcean server, viewing events with its command-line tools, and configuring email notifications.

## Source excerpt

Riemann is a general-purpose event processing system, but its most typical application is as a place to send and generate metrics about applications. I recently set up a Riemann server for my personal projects, and I feel like my devops game is stepped up by 1000%. Or, at very least, I feel like I know know about it as soon as one of my sites goes down.