Sensu: One stop solution for scalable open-source-based monitoring tool
January 16, 2021

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

Debodirno Chandra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Sensu

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.
  • 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.

Do you think Sensu, by Sumo Logic delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Sensu, by Sumo Logic's feature set?

Yes

Did Sensu, by Sumo Logic live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Sensu, by Sumo Logic go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Sensu, by Sumo Logic again?

Yes

  • 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.

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