Bosun

About Bosun

Bosun is an open-source monitoring and alerting system developed by Stack Exchange. It uses a domain specific language for evaluating alerts and creating notifications. It allows testing alerts against historical data.

Products

• scollector: Monitoring agent that works with OpenTSDB for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Used for

• Evaluating time series data using an expression language
• Creating notifications with graphs, tables, and contextual information
• Testing alerting against historical data before production
• Querying OpenTSDB, Graphite, and Logstash-Elasticsearch
• Detecting new services automatically and sending metrics

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