A detailed walk-through of installing Bosun and OpenTSDB using Apache Ambari to setup HBase/Hadoop. See also these snippets for using Cloudera CDH 5.4.4 on RHEL 6.
Reference setup of Bosun in a production environment.
An introduction to the data model of Bosun’s primary time series backend OpenTSDB. The first video covers time series, metrics and tags, aggregation, rate calculation, and downsampling. The second video covers data types, functions, operators, and set joins.
There is a full Bosun image that can be used for testing (Not recommended for production use), and an OpenTSDB only image if desired. Newer versions than the published ones can be built with the
docker-compose.ymlfile in thedockerdirectory of the repository.
There is a cookbook for using Chef to deploy scollector and another work in progress for deploying Bosun.
If you have questions you can get an invite to https://bosun.slack.com/ or use the Bosun tag on Stack Overflow or Server Fault.
This presentation has screencasts of building an alert starting about 15 minutes in. The first 15 minutes explain some of the design principles behind Bosun. After the first screen cast of building an alert there are also some example alerts.
Presentation give to the Utah Gophers meetup about creating a monitoring and alerting system in Go.
This was the first presentation on Bosun which was given right after the initial release. A great introduction to the underlying thoughts on problems with alerting and how Bosun solves them.
A .NET client to send metrics to Bosun/OpenTSDB. It is designed to encourage best-practices while making it easy to create counters and gauges, including multi-aggregate gauges.
A Go package used by Bosun, scollector, and various other applications to send metrics to Bosun/OpenTSDB. Includes limited support for multi-aggregate gauges.
A Go package and command line tool used by scollector to send HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP test results to Bosun.
A external collector that relays JMX metrics to Bosun/OpenTSDB via scollector. Also a good starting point for a custom Java collector.
A Bosun port for the go-metrics library based on Coda Hale’s Metrics library.
Sends metrics from Vert.x applications to Bosun.
Send ekg metrics from Haskell applications to Bosun.
bosun_emitter is a Rust library and CLI standalone binary called
emit_bosunthat may be used on the command line or from any shell script to send a single metric datum to Bosun.
OpsGenie Marid integration for Bosun.
rs-collector is a Rust based, scollector compatible telemetry collector for services currently not covered by scollector. It collects selected metrics for Galera, JVM, MongoDB, Postfix etc.
See also the list of built-in collectors included with scollector
Bosun integration for Hubot allowing to ack and close incidents as well as to create and clear silences with optional prettified Slack output.
Puppet module for installing and configuring the SCollector agent.
Syntax highlighting, openTSDB metric path completion and config validate extension for VS Code.
This is a quick and dirty JavaScript snippet for the iOS app Scriptable allowing to create a Bosun Alarms overview widget for iOS 14+.
