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Bosun

Time series alerting and monitoring system developed by Stack Exchange.

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LicenseMIT
GitHub stars3.5k
Last commit1 weeks ago
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Stack Overflow BosunTime Series AlertingBosun MonitorDevopsMetric Expression Evaluator
Overview

Why consider Bosun?

Bosun is an open-source time series alerting and monitoring framework written in Go by Stack Overflow. Bosun features an expressive domain-specific querying language, historical backtesting of alert rules against Graphite and OpenTSDB, and incident lifecycle management.

Guided learning

Learn Bosun by building

Practical setup notes, real use cases, and copy-ready examples in one focused guide.

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Overview of Bosun

Bosun writes complex time-series alert rules with built-in historical incident backtesting.

Quickstart

bash
1# Run Bosun binary
2./bosun -c bosun.toml

Bosun is licensed under the permissive MIT License.

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Bosun FAQs

Bosun is listed as a Developer Tools tool on TiloBox. Review the overview, features, and official documentation on this page to decide whether it solves your specific workflow.

Start with the project's GitHub repository and official website for supported installation and deployment instructions. Test the setup with representative data or a small project before rolling it out more widely.

Bosun is listed under the MIT license. Read the complete license text and the project's notices before using, modifying, or distributing the software.

Production readiness depends on your requirements. Review maintenance activity, security practices, documentation, backup and upgrade procedures, and compatibility with your stack; then validate it in a non-production environment.

Bosun is listed as an alternative to Datadog Alerts. Compare the core workflow, deployment model, integrations, and licensing against your must-have requirements before switching.