I totally agree about combining notifications with the dashboard. I built up Godot2 [0] to solve this for myself. It can take any metric, including metadata,

I totally agree about combining notifications with the dashboard. I built up Godot2 [0] to solve this for myself. It can take any metric, including metadata, and stream to notifications via Slack, email, SMS, as well as the dash. The incoming events have a spec, like Riemann, and is compatible with Graphite. Godot2 also has it's own mini query lang [1], which allows for easy selection of events for the dash, e.g. service =~ 'health/machine/disk/%' and status = 'ok' [0]: https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2-dash https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2-dash [1]: https://github.com/nextorigin/riemann-query-parser https://github.com/nextorigin/riemann-query-parser