BosunWhat is Bosun?
Bosun is an open-source, MIT licensed, monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange. It has an expressive domain specific language for evaluating alerts and creating detailed notifications. It also lets you test your alerts against history for a faster development experience.
Bosun is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Save time by testing alerting against historical data and reduce alert noise before an alert goes into productionSupports querying OpenTSDB, Graphite, and Logstash-ElasticsearchCreate notifications using Bosun's template language: include graphs, tables, and contextual information
Bosun Pros & Cons
Pros of Bosun
- ✓Powerful alerting
- ✓Query Elasticsearch
- ✓Query multiple tsdbs
Cons of Bosun
No cons listed yet.
Bosun Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Bosun?
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
