Bosun
Open SourceOpen-source infrastructure monitoring and alerting system with flexible alerting language
About Bosun
Bosun is an open-source monitoring and alerting system designed for infrastructure and operations teams seeking precise and customizable alert management. It offers a domain-specific language to evaluate time series data and create detailed notifications, enabling teams to tailor alerts to their unique environments. Bosun supports querying multiple backends including OpenTSDB, Graphite, and Logstash-Elasticsearch, providing flexibility in data sources. The system is compatible with Linux, Windows, and Mac, and includes the scollector agent for metric collection across various platforms and services.
Bosun is particularly suited for enterprises that require fine-grained control over alert definitions and notifications, with capabilities to test alerts against historical data to reduce noise and improve reliability. Although no longer actively maintained, Bosun remains a valuable tool for organizations leveraging open-source monitoring solutions and seeking extensible, customizable alerting frameworks. Its automatic detection of new services and dynamic tagging simplifies monitoring in evolving infrastructure environments.
Key Capabilities
- ✓Flexible domain-specific language for alert evaluation
- ✓Customizable notifications with graphs and contextual data
- ✓Historical alert testing to reduce false positives
- ✓Supports OpenTSDB, Graphite, and Logstash-Elasticsearch queries
- ✓Cross-platform support with scollector monitoring agent
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