We had the need to create Sensu alerts based on some of the metrics we send to Graphite. Googling around, I found this nice post by @ulfmansson talking about the way they did it at Recorded Future. Ulf recommends using Sean Porter's check-data.rb Sensu plugin for alerting based on Graphite data. It wasn't clear how to call the plugin, so we experimented a bit and came up with something along these lines (note that check-data.rb requires the sensu-plugin gem):
$ ruby check-data.rb -s graphite.example.com -t "movingAverage(stats.lb1.prod.assets-backend.session_current,10)" -w 100 -c 200
This run the check-data.rb script against the server graphite.example.com (-s option) requesting the value or the target metric movingAverage(stats.lb1.prod.assets-backend.session_current,10) (-t option) and setting a warning threshold of 100 for this value (-w option), and a critical threshold of 200 (-c option). The target can be any function supported by Graphite. In this example, it is a 10-minute moving average for the number of sessions for the "assets" haproxy backend. By default check-data.rb looks at the last 10 minutes of Graphite data (this can be changed by specifying something like -f "-5mins").
To call the check in the context of sensu, you need to deploy it to the client which will run it, and configure the check on the Sensu server in a json file in /etc/sensu/conf.d/checks:
"command": "/etc/sensu/plugins/check-data.rb -s graphite.example.com -t \"movingAverage(stats.lb1.prod.assets-backend.session_current,10)\" -w 100 -c 200"
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