Nugget Post: Insert an alert / rule name in emails sent from ElastAlert

ElastAlert is a fantastic python module that makes it easy to setup near - realtime alerts and responses to entries of interest. A quick piece of information  which I didnt find clearly documented was how to insert an alert name into a custom subject line sending email alerts.  A typical custom email alert rule file would include … Continue reading Nugget Post: Insert an alert / rule name in emails sent from ElastAlert

Lessons learned: Gephi not starting up

Scenario: When using Ubuntu Trusty (14.04.3LTS) Gephi 0.82 initializes but gets stuck on "Loading Cached Objects" Solution: The default Gephi startup bash script does not correctly initialize the JAVA path (it uses $jdkhome) The solution is simply to add the following to the beginning of the startup script (~/gephi/bin/gephi) export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java jdkhome=$JAVA_HOME The full script is … Continue reading Lessons learned: Gephi not starting up