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Sensu vs Statsite: What are the differences?
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.
What is Statsite? C implementation of statsd. Statsite is a metrics aggregation server. Statsite is based heavily on Etsy's StatsD https://github.com/etsy/statsd, and is wire compatible.
Sensu and Statsite can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Sensu are:
- Execute service checks
- Send notifications
- Collect metrics
On the other hand, Statsite provides the following key features:
- Multiple metric types
- Efficient summary metrics for timer data
- Dynamic set implementation
Sensu and Statsite are both open source tools. It seems that Sensu with 2.96K GitHub stars and 389 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Statsite with 1.73K GitHub stars and 241 GitHub forks.
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 Sensu
- Plugins1
- Written in Go1
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