Bosun vs StatsD

Bosun vs StatsD: 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 StatsD? Simple daemon for easy stats aggregation. StatsD is a front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics server, originally written by Etsy's Erik Kastner. StatsD is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

Bosun and StatsD belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.

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, StatsD provides the following key features:

• buckets: Each stat is in its own "bucket". They are not predefined anywhere. Buckets can be named anything that will translate to Graphite (periods make folders, etc)
• values: Each stat will have a value. How it is interpreted depends on modifiers. In general values should be integer.
• flush: After the flush interval timeout (defined by config.flushInterval, default 10 seconds), stats are aggregated and sent to an upstream backend service.

Bosun and StatsD are both open source tools. It seems that StatsD with 14.2K GitHub stars and 1.83K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Bosun with 2.84K GitHub stars and 477 GitHub forks.