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MonitoringWhat 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 category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Health checks & custom metricsalerts & incident managementreal-time inventoryauto-remediation & custom workflowscontainer monitoringKubernetes monitoringtelemetry & service health checkingmulti-cloud monitoring
Sensu Pros & Cons
Pros of Sensu
- ✓Support for almost anything
- ✓Easy setup
- ✓Message routing
- ✓Devs can code their own checks
- ✓Ease of use
- ✓Price
- ✓Easy configuration, scales well and performance is good
- ✓Nagios plugin compatibility
- ✓Written in Go
Cons of Sensu
- ✗Plugins
- ✗Written in Go
Sensu Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Sensu?
Kibana
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.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
