Bosun Monitoring

vertx-bosun is a client library for the Vert.x toolkit that enables applications to send metrics and alerting data to a Bosun cluster. Bosun is an open-source monitoring and alerting system built around OpenTSDB. This library provides a convenient way for Vert.x-based services to integrate with Bosun for real-time performance monitoring and alerting.

Key Features

• Bosun Integration — Establishes long-lived HTTP connections to configured Bosun endpoints for efficient data transmission.
• Metric Publishing — Supports the put operation to send metrics to both Bosun for indexing and OpenTSDB for storage.
• Index-Only Mode — Provides an index action to register metrics with Bosun's index without forwarding to OpenTSDB, reducing redundancy.
• Configurable Caching — Includes tunable cache settings for metric indexing to optimize performance and reduce network traffic.
• Event Bus Interface — Offers a simple API via Vert.x's event bus and a dedicated BosunPublisher helper class for easy integration.

Philosophy

The library is designed to be a lightweight, non-blocking bridge between Vert.x applications and Bosun, emphasizing configuration flexibility and efficient resource usage for high-throughput monitoring scenarios.