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I took a break today from the article I’m working on about “Orchestrating GitHub Actions with Zeebe and Camunda Cloud” (stay tuned, because it is lit) to build an exporter for Zeebe, one that can alert you whenever an incident is raised – for example via Pushover, Pager Duty, or by calling you via the Twilio API. If you just want to see the code, it is on GitHub: Zeebe Incident Alerter. There are a couple of videos of the stream of me coding it at the end of the post if you want to see that. Using tutorials to write Zeebe extensions I followed a couple of tutorials from June last year to accomplish it – Writing a Zeebe...

In this post, we’ll share at a high level why we think workflow automation is and will continue to be important to organizations of all shapes and sizes and why we created Zeebe. Workflows Are Everywhere But the Scale of These Workflows–and How They’re Executed–Is Changing Enter Zeebe

In Part One, we built a minimal exporter, and learned about the exporter life-cycle methods. In this blog post, we will walk through building a Zeebe exporter for the Event Store database, an open source database for storing event streams. The complete source code for this example is available on GitHub. As well, there is a compiled version, along with a docker-compose configuration for it on the 0.18 branch of the zeebe-docker-compose repo. This exporter is based on the Simple Monitor exporter. The Simple Monitor exporter exports to an H2 database via JDBC. The exporter we are going to write uses REST to export to Event Store. We’ll use the same patterns for configuration, but we have less configuration, and...

Exporters allow you to tap into the Zeebe event stream and export selected events to other systems. You can filter events, perform transformations, and even trigger side-effects from an exporter. In this post, we’ll step through implementing an exporter. In later posts, we’ll look more in depth at configuration and performance – but for now we’ll cover the bare minimum to help you understand how exporters work in Zeebe. Building an Exporter Follow along these steps to create a minimal exporter that can be deployed to a Zeebe broker. Note: Zeebe is under active development, and things may change. I have noted in each step things that are most likely to change. Create a new maven project: Add zeebe-exporter-api as...

On April 24, 2019, we hosted our first-ever Operate webinar, sharing background on the problem that Operate seeks to solve and demoing a few of its core capabilities. A recording of the webinar has been uploaded, and you can find it here. We’d also like to put together answers to questions that came in during the webinar, including some that we didn’t have an opportunity to answer during the webinar itself.