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At Stack Overflow we use a homebuilt Go solution called bosun: http://bosun.org/ -- it runs on pretty much anything and lets us incorporate data from windows machines / linux machines in one place.

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I recently tried out Bosun and liked it a lot. The documentation is a little light, and the dependency on hbase and hadoop (since opentsdb uses that) is a bit of a pain. Maintaining those isn't particularly straight forward or fun.

I'm also interested in prometheus but haven't gotten to try it out yet. Anyone reading this have experience with both? How do they compare?

We've been dogfooding the new Stack Overflow Documentation system for Bosun, so you may find some better examples at http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/bosun/topics which just opened yesterday. If you see anything missing you can request a topic or flag an example as needs improvement.

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