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Bosun vs RRDtool: What are the differences?
Developers describe Bosun as "Open-source monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange". Bosun is an open-source, MIT licensed, monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange. 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. On the other hand, RRDtool is detailed as "High performance data logging and graphing system for time series data". RRDtool lets you log and analyze the data you gather from all kinds of data-sources (DS). The data analysis part of RRDtool is based on the ability to quickly generate graphical representations of the data values collected over a definable time period.
Bosun and RRDtool can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Bosun and RRDtool are both open source tools. It seems that Bosun with 2.84K GitHub stars and 477 forks on GitHub has more adoption than RRDtool with 571 GitHub stars and 199 GitHub forks.
Pros of Bosun
- Powerful alerting1
- Query multiple tsdbs1
- Query Elasticsearch1
Pros of RRDtool
- Do one thing and do it well6