bosun.org@v0.0.0-20250213104149-b8d3e981f37d/docs/index.md (about)

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    14  			<h1 class="hometitle">Bosun</h1>
    15  			<p class="lead">is an open-source, MIT licensed, monitoring and alerting system by <a href="http://stackexchange.com">Stack Exchange</a>. It has an expressive domain specific language for evaluating alerts and creating detailed notifications. It also lets you test your alerts against history for a faster development experience.</p>
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    23  			<p class="admonition-title">Project Status (2025-02)</p>
    24  			<p>Bosun is no longer maintained.</p>
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    30  		<h3>Try It</h3>
    31  		<p>Want to jump right in? Follow our <strong><a href="/quickstart">quick start tutorial</a></strong> to get Bosun, OpenTSDB, and scollector up quickly using our published docker images.</p>
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    34  		<h3>Download It</h3>
    35  		<p>Download the prebuilt binaries for <strong><a href="/downloads">Bosun</a></strong> and our optional but valuable monitoring agent (Currently works only with OpenTSDB) <strong><a href="/scollector">scollector</a></strong> for Windows, Linux, and Mac.</p>
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    38  		<h3>Get Help</h3>
    39  		<p>Join us in our Slack room. <a href="/slackInvite">Get an invite.</a> You can <strong><a href="https://github.com/bosun-monitor/bosun/issues">open issues on GitHub</a></strong> to report bugs or discuss new features.</p>
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    42  <div class="row" style="padding-top: 75px"><h2 class="text-center feature-header">Features</h2></div>
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    50  			<p class="smaller">Use Bosun's flexible expression language to evaluate time series in an exacting way</p>
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    56  		<p class="smaller">Create notifications using Bosun's template language: include graphs, tables, and contextual information</p>
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    65  			<p class="smaller">Save time by testing alerting against historical data and reduce alert noise before an alert goes into production</p>
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    71  			<p class="smaller">Supports querying <a href="http://opentsdb.net/">OpenTSDB</a>, <a href="http://graphite.readthedocs.org">Graphite</a>, and <a href="http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/logstash/">Logstash-Elasticsearch</a></p>
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    80  			<p class="smaller">Runs on Linux, Windows, Mac, or any operating system supported by <a href="https://golang.org/"></a>Go</p>
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    86  			<p class="smaller">Use our agent scollector to get monitoring of Windows, Linux, and many common applications</p>
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    95  			<p class="smaller">Supports arbitrary dimensions (not just host based), aggregations, and automatically incorporating new tags (hosts, services, ..) as they appear</p>
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   101  			<p class="smaller">Scollector auto detects new services and starts sending metrics immediately; properly designed alerts will apply to these new services which reduces maintenance</p>
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