Sensu

Score8 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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Pros

Customizable and Flexible: Many users appreciate Sensu's highly customizable and flexible nature, allowing them to set different thresholds and send alerts to different teams. This feature has been mentioned by several reviewers, highlighting its usefulness for tailoring the software to their specific needs.

Easy Deployment and Management: Reviewers have found Sensu easy to deploy and manage, especially in comparison to other monitoring solutions like Nagios. Multiple users have expressed their satisfaction with the straightforward setup process and user-friendly interface, making it a popular choice among organizations seeking efficient monitoring solutions.

Active Community Support: The Sensu community is highly active and provides quick support to users. Several customers have praised the responsiveness of the community when it comes to addressing questions or issues, emphasizing the value they receive from being part of a supportive network of fellow Sensu users.

Reviews

2 Reviews

Sensu: One stop solution for scalable open-source-based monitoring tool

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 16, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sensu is being used by our entire company for various monitoring purposes. With open-source plugins, we can do a lot more than the Nagios plugins that come shipped with it. We are using Sensu to track the health of our servers and of the definite processes the servers would be running.

Pros

Cloud agnostic monitoring.
Open source
Container monitoring at the highest level.
Monitoring plugins can be easily created.

Cons

Cannot be solely used for tracking metrics over time.
Not a very good UI.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for raising pagers when you have count-based metrics.
Well suited for threshold-based metrics.
Not well suited for tracking events over the day, since graphs and other visualizations are missing.

Debodirno Chandra

Member Of Technical Staff, brSM Analytics Team in Engineering at Bloomreach (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Better than Nagios, but not by much, and only if you have a lot of time and DevOps

Rating: 2 out of 10

Incentivized

May 8, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sensu was used for infrastructure monitoring by our internal IT team. We had been using Nagios for our monitoring but figured out fairly quickly that, even for a small business like ours, it doesn't really scale, and Nagios isn't really designed for today's age of containerized and cloud-based workloads.

Pros

Unique concept as a "monitoring router" that can tie services together.
Backward-compatible with Nagios environments.
More of a DevOps focus than Nagios.

Cons

Terrible documentation that assumes you're already an expert in everything that Sensu can do.
Significantly more work than Nagios to get basic checks on and configured.
Web interface is primitive and not even on the same level as Nagios XI.
Large price hikes after Sensu Go was released.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sooner or later, companies are going to figure out that there's more to monitoring than what Nagios can provide. For those that want to dip their toe in the water and still provide backward compatibility with a legacy Nagios environment, Sensu is a good choice.

It's mainly for businesses that want more than Nagios but don't want to take the full plunge with something radically different and metric-based such as Prometheus.

Having moved to metric-based monitoring so far as I'm able, I can say with confidence that it's far better than what Nagios or Sensu provide.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience