Infra & metrics

Bosun

open source / community (Stack Exchange)

A powerful expression-based metrics alerting/anomaly system with a strong "test your alert before shipping" workflow.

Category
Infra & metrics
License
Open source
Deployment
Self-hosted
Cost
Free
Free tier
Yes
Self-host effort
Heavy
Maturity
Legacy
Popularity
≈3.4k GitHub stars; dormant

The catch

Largely dormant and tied to the OpenTSDB era; its expression language is powerful but idiosyncratic, and mindshare moved to Prometheus Alertmanager.

Monitors

MetricsServers

Capabilities

AlertingAnomaly detection

Built for

SRE / DevOps

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