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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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