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Description

Bosun is a monitoring and alerting solution released under the MIT license by Stack Exchange, designed to be open-source. It features a powerful domain-specific language that allows users to evaluate alerts and generate comprehensive notifications. The system enables users to test their alerts against historical data, thereby streamlining the development process significantly. Its flexible expression language facilitates precise evaluation of time series data, allowing for meticulous monitoring. By leveraging historical data for testing alerts, users can minimize alert fatigue and ensure only relevant notifications are triggered when the system goes live. Bosun is compatible with various operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and Mac, as well as any OS supported by Go. The system supports arbitrary dimensions beyond just host-based metrics, offers aggregation capabilities, and automatically integrates new tags as they become available. Additionally, Scollector identifies new services autonomously and begins transmitting metrics without delay, which means that well-designed alerts can extend to these new services with reduced administrative effort. Finally, users can employ the Scollector agent to monitor not only Windows and Linux systems but also a range of common applications, ensuring comprehensive coverage across their infrastructure.

Description

Enhance your metrics and alerting capabilities using a top-tier open-source monitoring tool. Prometheus inherently organizes all data as time series, which consist of sequences of timestamped values associated with the same metric and a specific set of labeled dimensions. In addition to the stored time series, Prometheus has the capability to create temporary derived time series based on query outcomes. The tool features a powerful query language known as PromQL (Prometheus Query Language), allowing users to select and aggregate time series data in real time. The output from an expression can be displayed as a graph, viewed in tabular format through Prometheus’s expression browser, or accessed by external systems through the HTTP API. Configuration of Prometheus is achieved through a combination of command-line flags and a configuration file, where the flags are used to set immutable system parameters like storage locations and retention limits for both disk and memory. This dual method of configuration ensures a flexible and tailored monitoring setup that can adapt to various user needs.

API Access

Has API No 

API Access

Has API No 

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Integrations

Docker Yes 
Aidbox FHIR Platform No 
Akamai No 
Blotout No 
Centreon No 
Chkk No 
CrowdSec No 
D2iQ No 
GitHub No 
InsightFinder No 
Interlink Software No 
Kubescape No 
Kubiya No 
Last9 No 
LiMon No 
NeuBird No 
OpsWorker No 
Stackable No 
Tetragon No 
ip·Solis No 

Integrations

Docker Yes 
Aidbox FHIR Platform Yes 
Akamai Yes 
Blotout Yes 
Centreon Yes 
Chkk Yes 
CrowdSec Yes 
D2iQ Yes 
GitHub Yes 
InsightFinder Yes 
Interlink Software Yes 
Kubescape Yes 
Kubiya Yes 
Last9 Yes 
LiMon Yes 
NeuBird Yes 
OpsWorker Yes 
Stackable Yes 
Tetragon Yes 
ip·Solis Yes 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

Free
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

Deployment

Web-Based No 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac Yes 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based No 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac Yes 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Bosun

Founded

2003

Website

bosun.org

Vendor Details

Company Name

Prometheus

Founded

2012

Website

prometheus.io

Product Features

IT Alerting

Alert Noise Reduction No 
Alert Routing No 
Dynamic Notifications No 
Enriched Incident Context No 
Escalation Policies No 
Incident History Audit No 
Multi-User Alerting No 
Multiple Alert Types No 
On-Call Management No 
Rich HTML Email Notifications No 

Product Features

Database

Backup and Recovery No 
Creation / Development No 
Data Migration No 
Data Replication No 
Data Search No 
Data Security No 
Database Conversion No 
Mobile Access No 
Monitoring No 
NOSQL No 
Performance Analysis No 
Queries No 
Relational Interface No 
Virtualization No 

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Alerts / Notifications No 
Application Monitoring No 
Bandwidth Monitoring No 
Capacity Planning No 
Configuration Change Management No 
Data Movement Monitoring No 
Health Monitoring No 
Multi-Platform Support No 
Performance Monitoring No 
Point-in-Time Visibility No 
Reporting / Analytics No 
Virtual Machine Monitoring No 

Network Monitoring

Bandwidth Monitoring No 
Baseline Manager No 
Diagnostic Tools No 
IP Address Monitoring No 
Internet Usage Monitoring No 
Real Time Analytics No 
Resource Management No 
SLA Monitoring No 
Server Monitoring No 
Uptime Monitoring No 
Web Traffic Reporting No 

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