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It seems to be a DSL to describe alerts over whole clusters. That's probably what a monitoring system for the cloud age should. It can monitor Logstash and Graphite, which are proven ways to collect data in a disparate environment.

But many in the comments compare it with Nagios which I think isn't really fair. You could probably easily plug this into Nagios and it's dependency rulework can figure out who to page when. Because that's what Nagios is, not the default checks it ships with.




Bosun really is different in many ways than Nagios. There are 4 major components that are a the root of Bosun:

* Time Series Database: Lets you do forecasting and anomalous alerts. Basically lets your alerts have context

* Expression Language so you can manipulate that data: Makes the data you collect and how you alert more orthogonal

* Templating for alerts (Built on Go templates, can include graphs, tables, links, etc)

* IDE interface for developing and alert handling workflow. It also lets you test alerts against history which allows for rapid alert development.

So other than "it does alerting" it is a very different beast from Nagios.




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