Sensu
The Observability Pipeline.
Overview
Sensu is an observability pipeline that allows businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain visibility into their multi-cloud infrastructure, from bare metal to Kubernetes. It is designed to be a flexible, scalable, and developer-friendly monitoring solution.
✨ Key Features
- Observability Pipeline
- Monitoring as Code
- Support for Nagios-style plugins
- Multi-cloud monitoring
- Event filtering and enrichment
- Built-in federation and clustering
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Observability pipeline approach (decouples data collection, processing, and alerting)
- Monitoring as Code philosophy
- Cloud-native design
Unique Value: Provides a flexible and scalable observability pipeline that enables developers and operators to treat monitoring as code, automating workflows and gaining deep visibility into any infrastructure.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Using a single tool to monitor bare metal servers, VMs, and Kubernetes clusters
- Integrating existing Nagios plugins into a modern monitoring workflow
- Building custom monitoring and auto-remediation pipelines
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Teams looking for a simple, all-in-one SaaS solution with a built-in UI for dashboards
- Organizations without DevOps or development resources to manage configuration as code
🏆 Alternatives
Offers a more flexible and pipeline-oriented approach than monolithic tools like Zabbix, and is more focused on checks and events than metrics-centric tools like Prometheus.
💻 Platforms
✅ Offline Mode Available
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise tier)
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Sensu Go is free for up to 100 entities
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