SensuWhat 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.
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.
