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GoLang: Running a Go binary as a SysV service on Ubuntu 14.04


Categories: Linux, Scripting

The Go language with its simplicity, concurrency support,  rich package ecosystem, and ability to compile down to a single binary is an attractive solution for writing services on Ubuntu. However, the Go language does not natively provide a reliable way to daemonize itself.  In this article I will describe how to take a couple of simple Go language programs, … GoLang: Running a Go binary as a SysV service on Ubuntu 14.04

ELK: Running ElastAlert as a service on Ubuntu 14.04


Categories: Linux, Monitoring

ElastAlert from the Yelp Engineering group provides a very flexible platform for alerting on conditions coming from ElasticSearch. In a previous article I fully describe running interactively on an Ubuntu server, and now I’ll expand on that by running it at system startup using a System-V init script. One of the challenges of getting ElastAlert to run as a … ELK: Running ElastAlert as a service on Ubuntu 14.04