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Sensu

Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.

What is Sensu?

Sensu is the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline empowers businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain deep visibility into their multi-cloud environments.
Sensu is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Sensu is an open source tool with 2.9K GitHub stars and 389 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Sensu's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Sensu?

Companies
47 companies reportedly use Sensu in their tech stacks, including Robinhood, yogiyo, and Vinted.

Developers
149 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Sensu.

Sensu Integrations

Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB, PagerDuty, and Graphite are some of the popular tools that integrate with Sensu. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Sensu.
Pros of Sensu
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Support for almost anything
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Easy setup
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Message routing
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Devs can code their own checks
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Ease of use
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Price
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Nagios plugin compatibility
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Easy configuration, scales well and performance is good
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Written in Go

Blog Posts

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Sensu's Features

  • Health checks & custom metrics
  • alerts & incident management
  • real-time inventory
  • auto-remediation & custom workflows
  • container monitoring
  • Kubernetes monitoring
  • telemetry & service health checking
  • multi-cloud monitoring

Sensu Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Sensu?
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
Nagios
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
Datadog
Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!
Icinga
It monitors availability and performance, gives you simple access to relevant data and raises alerts to keep you in the loop. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application.
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Sensu's Followers
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