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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.
Pros of Flapjack
Pros of Sensu
- Support for almost anything13
- Easy setup11
- Message routing9
- Devs can code their own checks7
- Ease of use5
- Price4
- Nagios plugin compatibility3
- Easy configuration, scales well and performance is good3
- Written in Go1
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Cons of Flapjack
Cons of Sensu
- Plugins1
- Written in Go1