Bosun vs Dropwizard Metrics: What are the differences?

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; Dropwizard Metrics: Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. It is a Java library which gives you insight into what your code does in production. It provides a powerful toolkit of ways to measure the behavior of critical components in your production environment. It provides you with full-stack visibility.

Bosun and Dropwizard Metrics can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.

Bosun and Dropwizard Metrics are both open source tools. It seems that Dropwizard Metrics with 6.64K GitHub stars and 1.64K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Bosun with 2.85K GitHub stars and 479 GitHub forks.

Stack Exchange, OneTwoTrip, and Netsil are some of the popular companies that use Bosun, whereas Dropwizard Metrics is used by Yammer, Auto Trader, and LeanIX. Bosun has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 9 developers stacks; compared to Dropwizard Metrics, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.