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What is Sensu?

Sensu, now from Sumo Logic (acquired in June of 2021) is presented as a future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline is used by businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain visibility into their…

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What is Sensu?

Sensu, now from Sumo Logic (acquired in June of 2021) is presented as a future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline is used by businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain visibility into their multi-cloud environments. The vendor…

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Product Details

What is Sensu?

Sensu, now from Sumo Logic (acquired in June of 2021) is presented as a future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline is used by businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain visibility into their multi-cloud environments. The vendor boasts companies like Sony, Box.com, and Activision use Sensu to help deliver value to their customers. Sensu offers a comprehensive monitoring solution for enterprises, providing visibility across every system, and every protocol — from Kubernetes to bare metal.

Sensu Features

  • Supported: Workflow automation for monitoring

Sensu Screenshots

Screenshot of Sensu dashboard homepageScreenshot of Sensu dashboard namespace switcherScreenshot of Sensu events displayed in Grafana. In the examples above, Sensu is comfortably handling 40,000 Sensu agent connections (and their keepalives) and processing over 36,000 events per second.Screenshot of Sensu events displayed in Grafana. In the examples above, Sensu is comfortably handling 40,000 Sensu agent connections (and their keepalives) and processing over 36,000 events per second.

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Sensu Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Sensu Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)10%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)40%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users of this software have reported significant improvements in their workflows and performance. With reduced latencies and faster code deployments, the software has proven to be a valuable asset for developers. The architecture has been streamlined with Sensu, providing end-to-end observability and an amazing Pipelining feature. This allows for efficient monitoring and management purposes, including capacity management, compliance management, and issue auditing. Additionally, the software has made monitoring cloud instances much easier, simplifying the process for users. Notably, many users have switched from Nagios to Sensu due to its easier backend and deployment process. While reviewers have suggested that the GUI and documentation of Sensu could use improvement, overall, the software is considered a useful monitoring tool with flexibility and ease of use. It is widely used across organizations for various purposes, including tracking server health and monitoring infrastructure. The strong community surrounding Sensu also offers diverse use cases and community-maintained plugins, which are highly appreciated by users. Overall, Sensu Go is a powerful framework that enables users to build customized event pipelines in dynamic environments.

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.

Lack of Features: Several users have expressed dissatisfaction with the software's lack of certain key features, including access control, inventory management, license management, maintenance scheduling, patch management, baseline manager, resource management, credential management, scheduling, real-time monitoring, and transaction monitoring. This limitation has been seen as a significant disadvantage by many reviewers.

Limited Functionality Out of the Box: One user mentioned that the software does not provide much functionality out of the box and lacks predefined checks. They pointed out that it only sends keepalives and does not offer a wide range of built-in features like other similar tools.

Unimpressive GUI Interface and Documentation: Some users have criticized the GUI interface for being simplistic compared to other similar tools. The documentation was also mentioned as lacking beginner-friendly explanations and clear examples.

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Debodirno Chandra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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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.
  • Cloud agnostic monitoring.
  • Open source
  • Container monitoring at the highest level.
  • Monitoring plugins can be easily created.
  • Cannot be solely used for tracking metrics over time.
  • Not a very good UI.
  • 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.
  • Can easily understand and extend use-cases to under server capabilities.
  • Can use it to scale well.
  • Can help in efficient resource planning.
Have used New Relic and Sematext Cloud for APM and for tracking over days and visualizing the issues. But those are very expensive as compared to Sensu.
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