Bosun 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.
Bosun Alternatives
Uptime.com
Uptime.com website monitoring solutions provide unmatched visibility and availability, empowering engineering, operations and SRE teams to monitor & respond to their most essential services. Simple & intuitive industry leading Enterprise-grade features delivered at a fair price, that are continuously improving.
G2, Sourceforge and TechRadar Pro have recognized us as one of the world’s best uptime monitors for several consecutive years, including this one. Try 100% free.
Learn more
AdRem NetCrunch
NetCrunch is a next-gen, agentless infrastructure and traffic network monitoring system designed for hybrid, multi-site, and fast changing infrastructures. It combines real-time observability with alert automation and intelligent escalation to eliminate the overhead and limitations of legacy tools like PRTG or SolarWinds. NetCrunch supports agentless monitoring of thousands of nodes from a single server-covering physical devices, virtual machines, servers, traffic flows, cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP), SNMP, syslogs, Windows Events, IoT, telemetry, and more.
Unlike sensor-based tools, NetCrunch uses node-based licensing and policy-driven configuration to streamline monitoring, reduce costs, and eliminate sensor micromanagement. 670+ built-in monitoring packs apply instantly based on device type, ensuring consistency across the network.
NetCrunch delivers real-time, dynamic maps and dashboards that update without manual refreshes, giving users immediate visibility into issues and performance. Its smart alerting engine features root cause correlation, suppression, predictive triggers, and over 40 response actions including scripts, API calls, notifications, and integrations with Jira, Teams, Slack, Amazon SNS, MQTT, PagerDuty, and more.
Its powerful REST API makes NetCrunch perfect for flow automation, including integration with asset management, production/IoT/operations monitoring and other IT systems with ease.
Whether replacing an aging platform or modernizing enterprise observability, NetCrunch offers full-stack coverage with unmatched flexibility. Fast to deploy, simple to manage, and built to scale-NetCrunch is the smarter, faster, and future-ready monitoring system. Designed for on-prem (including air-gapped), cloud self-hosted or hybrid networks.
Learn more
Appchkr
Appchkr provides a comprehensive suite of software for uptime monitoring, alerting, and reporting, catering to a wide range of users from large networks and server farms to small businesses and personal websites. It is available for free for up to 10 targets, ensuring hands-free operation in the background. With a quick setup process, fast notification capabilities, and an unmatched combination of features and affordability, it supports any version of MS Windows or Linux. Appchkr effectively monitors both local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs), as well as internal and external internet connections. The service is distributed globally and offers reliable support, making it accessible to users everywhere. Designed to be efficient in terms of time, network resources, and financial investment, it includes specialized options for databases, facilities management, security, and quality assurance systems. Additionally, Appchkr integrates seamlessly with platforms like Slack and PagerDuty while providing public status pages for transparency. Its integrated diagnostic tools aid in reducing and preventing downtime, and it can be controlled through either a web browser or command line interchangeably. The auto-flex feature helps to keep costs down, and users benefit from extensive documentation to guide them through setup and use. This versatile monitoring solution is a valuable asset for anyone looking to maintain optimal system performance.
Learn more
CPTRAX for Windows
Server File Activity Tracking – Audit who is creating, accessing and moving your files and folders. Track file permission changes. Alerts in real-time about critical file activity Malicious activity containment (Ransomware and mass file deletions, etc.
Automatically stop threats to your Windows servers by calling PowerShell scripts so you can determine exactly what you want to have happen for each type of alert/threat.
Examples of containment:
Disable the user causing the threat
Block the remote IP causing the threat
Workstation File Activity Tracking: Audit who copies files to USB or other removable media. Track who uploads files via FTP or a browser. Block files being created on USB/removable devices. Notifications by email when a removable device connects.
Active Directory Auditing – Keep audit logs and receive real-time alerts about important Active Directory changes, without having to deal with SACLs or Windows Event Logs.
Server Authentication Auditing: Track authentications into Citrix sessions and Windows Servers. All failed logon attempts are reviewed.
Workstation Logon/Logoff Tracking: Get visibility on logons/logoffs at workstations, including locks, unlocks and password changes.
Learn more
Integrations
Company Details
Company:
Bosun
Year Founded:
2003
Website:
bosun.org
Media
Recommended Products
No-Nonsense Code-to-Cloud Security for Devs | Aikido
Aikido provides a unified security platform for developers, combining 12 powerful scans like SAST, DAST, and CSPM. AI-driven AutoFix and AutoTriage streamline vulnerability management, while runtime protection blocks attacks.
Product Details
Platforms
Windows
Mac
Linux
Types of Training
Training Docs
Customer Support
Online Support
Bosun Features and Options
Bosun User Reviews
Write a Review- Previous
- Next
