Bosun Intermediate Training
Reduce alert noise, automate silences and custom metrics through the Bosun API, secure the server and troubleshoot failing checks. Learn Bosun through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Bosun levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Bosun Intermediate Training.
Understand where Bosun fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Bosun is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Bosun program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Intermediate.
Private Bosun training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Bosun training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Bosun usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Intermediate | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Intermediate | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 3 Days | Corporate | Bosun Intermediate Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Bosun training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Write expression-based alerts
Build Bosun alerts that combine queries, baselines and lookups to catch real problems with few false alarms.
Operate the alert workflow
Run acknowledgements, silences, escalations and API automation so on-call teams act on the right alerts.
Scale and govern monitoring
Size the time-series backend, harden Bosun and plan a governed path to newer alerting platforms.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Bosun responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Bosun matters
- Bosun helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Bosun becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Bosun effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Bosun concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Bosun in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Bosun for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Bosun usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Bosun.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Intermediate. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: architecture, installation and first alertDay 1
- Monitoring concepts: metrics, time series, tags, thresholds and why Bosun uses expression-based alerting
- Bosun architecture: Bosun server, scollector agents, tsdbrelay, OpenTSDB on HBase and the Redis state store
- Supported backends: OpenTSDB, Graphite, InfluxDB and Elasticsearch query functions in one expression language
- Installing Bosun: release binary or container image, bosun.toml system settings and the rule file location
- Installing scollector: Linux and Windows agents, sending to Bosun or OpenTSDB, verifying metrics arrive
- Web UI tour: Items, Graph, Expression, Rule Editor and Dashboard pages
- Metric naming and tags: os.cpu, os.mem.used, host tag and designing tag keys with low cardinality
- First expression: q() query syntax with aggregator, metric, tags, relative start and end times
- Reduction functions: avg, last, min, max, sum and percentile to turn series into numbers
- First alert: warn and crit expressions, $variables and viewing alert state on the dashboard
Essential Level = Foundation + rule files, notifications and alert workflowDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Rule file structure: alert, notification, lookup, macro and message body sections
- Expression language: arithmetic, comparisons and the difference between series, number and scalar results
- Baseline functions: change, diff, band, over and window for week-over-week and historical comparisons
- Alert keywords: warnNotification, critNotification, runEvery, ignoreUnknown and unjoinedOK
- Notifications: SMTP email settings, HTTP post webhooks and chat integrations through post bodies
- Alert messages: subject and body written in Go text and HTML rendering syntax using .Eval, .Graph and .Last
- Lookups and macros: per-host or per-service thresholds and reusable alert snippets
- Testing rules: Rule Editor test runs against past time ranges and the alert timeline view
- Incident workflow: acknowledge, close and forget alerts from the dashboard with history
- Silences: maintenance windows by tag set, duration and the forget option
- scollector configuration: scollector.toml, enabling collectors, custom tags, process and service monitoring
- Graph page: building graphs from expressions and embedding graphs in notifications
Intermediate Level = Essential + noise control, automation, API and troubleshootingDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Unknown and missing data: unknown state, depends and squelch to suppress noisy or dependent alerts
- Escalation: chained notifications with next and timeout, and repeat intervals for unacknowledged alerts
- Log-style alerts: log and maxLogFrequency for event conditions that should notify on every occurrence
- Custom metrics: posting data to /api/put, scollector external collectors and consistent tagging
- tsdbrelay: relaying writes to Bosun and OpenTSDB, fan-out to secondary clusters and denormalization
- Bosun HTTP API: querying alerts and expressions, creating silences automatically from deployment pipelines
- Rules as code: keeping the rule file in Git, review workflow and saving from the Rule Editor with a commit hook
- Annotations: recording deployments and incidents on graphs with Elasticsearch-backed annotation storage
- Other backends in expressions: Elasticsearch log counts and InfluxDB application metrics
- Securing Bosun: authentication with LDAP or tokens, TLS behind a reverse proxy and read-only users
- State store operations: Redis persistence, backups and moving from the embedded ledis store
- Troubleshooting: Bosun and scollector logs, expression errors, slow OpenTSDB queries and missing data
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Bosun levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Build a host CPU and memory alert
Install Bosun and scollector on a lab VM, graph CPU and memory metrics, then write an alert with warn and crit thresholds and watch it fire.
Create a team rule file with notifications
Write a rule file with lookups, a macro and email plus webhook notifications, test it against last week's data and silence a host during maintenance.
Automate silences from a deploy pipeline
Push custom application metrics through the API, add an escalating alert with dependencies and create silences automatically from a CI deployment job.
Bosun is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Bosun with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Bosun certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Bosun level.
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Bosun Intermediate Training
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Bosun path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Bosun Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Bosun level fits your team.
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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