Great. Yeah, adding unit tests for alerts is something that we still need to add the capability for. But at least you can always already manually graph your alert expressions and see how they would have evaluated over time.
Interesting work on Bosun by the way! Seems like there is quite some overlap with Prometheus, but I yet have to study it in depth. Is my impression correct that OpenTSDB is a requirement, or is there any local storage component? I guess you could run OpenTSDB colocated on a single node...
Ah, ok. By the way, in case you make it to GopherCon this year, it would be interesting to exchange ideas! One of the things I'm happy about is that finally systems with multi-dimensional time series (based on OpenTSDB or not) are becoming more common...
I was there last year but not sure if I'm going this year yet. Matt is going though (http://mattjibson.com/). I'd love to chat at some point though!
I need to take a closer look at stealing ideas from your tool :-) We are both leveraging Go templates (Bosun uses it for Alert notifications, but I've thought about using it to create dashboards as well).
Interesting work on Bosun by the way! Seems like there is quite some overlap with Prometheus, but I yet have to study it in depth. Is my impression correct that OpenTSDB is a requirement, or is there any local storage component? I guess you could run OpenTSDB colocated on a single node...