Kibana vs Sensu: What are the differences?
Developers describe Kibana as "Explore & Visualize Your Data". Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch. On the other hand, Sensu is detailed as "Open source monitoring framework". A monitoring framework that aims to be simple, malleable, and scalable. Essentially, Sensu takes the results of “check” scripts run across many systems, and if certain conditions are met; passes their information to one or more “handlers”. Checks are used, for example, to determine if a service like Apache is up or down.
Kibana and Sensu can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Kibana are:
- Flexible analytics and visualization platform
- Real-time summary and charting of streaming data
- Intuitive interface for a variety of users
On the other hand, Sensu provides the following key features:
- Execute service checks
- Send notifications
- Collect metrics
"Easy to setup" is the top reason why over 76 developers like Kibana, while over 11 developers mention "Support for almost anything" as the leading cause for choosing Sensu.
Kibana and Sensu are both open source tools. It seems that Kibana with 12.4K GitHub stars and 4.8K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Sensu with 2.96K GitHub stars and 389 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Kibana has a broader approval, being mentioned in 907 company stacks & 479 developers stacks; compared to Sensu, which is listed in 33 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
