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Flapjack vs Sensu: What are the differences?

What is Flapjack? Monitoring notification routing + event processing system. Flapjack is a flexible monitoring notification routing system that handles: alert routing, alert summarisation, your standard operational tasks.

What is Sensu? 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.

Flapjack and Sensu can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.

Flapjack and Sensu are both open source tools. It seems that Sensu with 2.96K GitHub stars and 389 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Flapjack with 656 GitHub stars and 91 GitHub forks.

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      Support for almost anything
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      Message routing
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      Easy configuration, scales well and performance is good
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      What is Flapjack?

      Flapjack is a flexible monitoring notification routing system that handles: alert routing, alert summarisation, your standard operational tasks.

      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.

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