Bosun vs collectd: What are the differences?
What is Bosun? Open-source monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange. 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.
What is collectd? System and applications metrics collector. collectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information. Those statistics can then be used to find current performance bottlenecks (i.e. performance analysis) and predict future system load (i.e. capacity planning). Or if you just want pretty graphs of your private server and are fed up with some homegrown solution you're at the right place, too.
Bosun and collectd can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Bosun are:
- Save time by testing alerting against historical data and reduce alert noise before an alert goes into production
- Supports querying OpenTSDB, Graphite, and Logstash-Elasticsearch
- Create notifications using Bosun's template language: include graphs, tables, and contextual information
On the other hand, collectd provides the following key features:
Bosun and collectd are both open source tools. Bosun with 2.84K GitHub stars and 477 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than collectd with 2.26K GitHub stars and 1.08K GitHub forks.
