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MONITORING AS CODE (THE SENSU BLOG)

The latest news and announcements about Sensu Inc, Sensu Go, the Sensu
Community, monitoring & observability, DevOps & SRE, and the tech industry in
general.

COMMITTED TO OPEN SOURCE - SUMO LOGIC SIMPLIFIES INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATION
MONITORING DEPLOYMENTS

Sumo Logic introduces the Sensu Integration Catalog – an open marketplace
featuring turn-key integrations to accelerate deployments

Read more...



LATEST POSTS

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All Releases Community DevOps How-To Testimonials Use Cases

ALERT FATIGUE IN SRE AND DEVOPS: WHAT IT IS & HOW TO AVOID IT

Learn to respond to and resolve critical issues without contributing to alert
fatigue.

Cyril Cressent alert fatigue, devops, sre
DevOps

SCALE YOUR MONITORING AND OBSERVABILITY WITH SENSU

Learn how Sensu can help complex and evolving organizations achieve
comprehensive enterprise-level monitoring and observability.

Francis Guimond cloud monitoring, cloud monitoring tools, cloud monitoring
solutions, cloud monitoring platform, observability tools
DevOps

SECRETS MANAGEMENT: USE CASES, BEST PRACTICES, AND TOOLS

Learn more about secrets management use cases, challenges and best practices,
and take a closer look at each of Sensu’s secrets management options.

Gustav Danielsson secrets management, enterprise secrets management, secrets
management strategy, secrets management best practices, secrets management
software, hashicorp vault
DevOps

SECURING YOUR MONITORING SOFTWARE WITH MTLS



Cyril Cressent mTLS, mtls authentication, what is mtls, mtls certificate, mTLS
vs. TLS
How-to

GET HIGH-PERFORMANCE, ENTERPRISE-CLASS OBSERVABILITY WITH SENSU GO

Sensu is a complete solution for infrastructure monitoring and observability,
designed to give you visibility into all of your important infrastructure
components.

Anthony Goddard monitoring, observability, infrastructure monitoring,
application monitoring, devops
DevOps

KUBERNETES MONITORING: METRICS, TOOLS & BEST PRACTICES



The Sensu Team kubernetes, kubernetes monitoring, k8s, k8s monitoring,
infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring, cloud monitoring, monitoring
tools, DevOps, SREs
DevOps

TURN-KEY INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATION MONITORING

A deep dive into modern infrastructure monitoring, along with tips on making
infrastructure monitoring as effective as possible for your organization.

The Sensu Team infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring, cloud
monitoring, monitoring tools, DevOps, SREs
DevOps

TENSU: AN OPEN SOURCE TEXT UI FOR SENSU GO

A Two Sigma engineer explains why they built Tensu, an open source TUI-based
program for interacting with Sensu Go's observability pipeline and backend API.

Alex Urcioli sensu go, monitoring, observabilit, OSS
Community

MONITORAMA 2022: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (PART 1)

Dive into the most engaging themes of Monitorama 2022: tracing, SLIs,
OpenTelemetry, and more!

Troy Howard monitorama, monitoring, observability, prometheus, opentelemetry
Community

MONITORAMA 2022: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (PART 2)

Dive into the most engaging talks of Monitorama 2022!

Troy Howard monitorama, monitoring, observability, prometheus, opentelemetry
Community

SENSU INTEGRATION CATALOG: ONE STATIC API TO RULE THEM ALL

Learn about the novel API generator CLI tool (catalog-api), and local
development environment setup for Catalog contributors.

Jef Spaleta monitoring, integrations marketplace, observability, monitoring as
code, DevOps
DevOps

SENSU INTEGRATION CATALOG: ENGINEERING AN OPEN MARKETPLACE

There are 3 pieces that make the Integrations marketplace experience work. Learn
more about them in our latest blog post.

Jef Spaleta monitoring, monitoring as code, infrastructure monitoring,
appliction monitoring, integrations marketplace
DevOps

COMMITTED TO OPEN SOURCE - SUMO LOGIC SIMPLIFIES INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATION
MONITORING DEPLOYMENTS

Sumo Logic introduces the Sensu Integration Catalog – an open marketplace
featuring turn-key integrations to accelerate deployments

Sumo Logic monitoring, observability, sensu, integration marketplace, open
marketplace, enterprise marketplace, enterprise integrations, cloud computing
integrations, monitoring and observability integrations
DevOps

UNLOCKING SELF-SERVICE MONITORING WITH THE SENSU INTEGRATION CATALOG



Caleb Hailey monitoring, integrations, observability, monitoring as code,
enterprise marketplace, enterprise integration, cloud computing integration
DevOps

MONITORING AS CODE FOR MODERN DEVOPS TEAMS

Sensu brings monitoring into the as-code fold and allows you to codify complex
business requirements into repeatable steps.

Troy Howard monitoring as code, observability, SRE, DevOps, monitoring
DevOps

NAGIOS ALTERNATIVES: MIGRATING FROM NAGIOS TO SENSU

Learn some common Nagios limitations, and corresponding solutions available in
Sensu Go -- including built-in support for reusing Nagios plugins and automating
monitoring for public cloud and cloud native workloads.

Jef Spaleta nagios, nagios alternatives, monitoring, observability
How-to

JAVASCRIPT MUTATORS & THE PROGRAMMABLE OBSERVABILITY PIPELINE

Sensu's JavaScript mutators are an efficient, flexible alternative to pipe
mutators that remove barriers as you scale up your observability efforts.

Troy Howard observability pipeline, observability, monitoring, Sensu. mutators
How-to

INTRODUCING THE SENSU PIPELINE RESOURCE

Introducing the Sensu pipeline resource, a fundamental shift in how you define
your pipelines

Troy Howard sensu plus, observability, observability pipeline, monitoring,
pipeline resources
How-to

SENSU GO 6.5: SENSU PLUS, HIGH-PERFORMANCE HANDLERS, AND PIPELINE RESOURCES



Caleb Hailey sensu plus, observability, observability pipeline, monitoring,
handlers, pipeline resources
Releases

INTRODUCING SENSU PLUS: AN INTEGRATED ANALYTICS SOLUTION FOR ALL SENSU USERS

For Sensu users who want an integrated analytics engine to extract insights from
Sensu’s observability pipeline data, we are launching Sensu Plus – a bundled
solution that includes Sensu plus Sumo Logic, with simple node-based pricing.

Caleb Hailey observability, observability pipeline, devops, metrics
DevOps

LDAP AUTHENTICATION WITH SENSU GO: TROUBLESHOOTING & TIPS (PART 2)

Learn more about the Sensu LDAP implementation and explore how SSO/LDAP users
are linked to RBAC "profiles" (i.e. Roles and ClusterRoles).

Jef Spaleta ldap, ldap authentication, ldap port, ldap server, sso
DevOps

SENSU TO BE ACQUIRED BY SUMO LOGIC

Sumo Logic to acquire Sensu, expand OSS observability investment.

Caleb Hailey
Community

AN INTRODUCTION TO PROMETHEUS MONITORING (2021)

Learn how Prometheus monitoring can benefit your company, what alternative
monitoring tools are available and how to choose the right tool for your
organization’s needs!

Caleb Hailey prometheus, prometheus monitoring, prometheus alternative,
prometheus monitoring tool, sensu vs prometheus, prometheus kubernetes,
prometheus architecture
DevOps

WHAT IS LDAP AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

In this guide, we’ll explain what LDAP is, its uses, and how it works. We’ll
also discuss the levels of LDAP directory and data components – illustrating how
it’s an essential tool for managing data about organizations and users alike.

Chima Mmeje security, LDAP, Active Directory
DevOps

MANAGING SENSU GO 6 WITH PUPPET

Learn how to use Puppet to automate a Sensu Go deployment for seamless
monitoring automation by leveraging both Sensu Go and Puppet.

Trey Dockendorf Puppet, configuration management
How-to

MONITORING AS CODE: WHAT IT IS AND WHY YOU NEED IT

A comprehensive CI/CD initiative should include monitoring and observability. In
this post, Sensu CTO & co-founder Sean Porter examines how monitoring as code
fills that gap.

Sean Porter monitoring as code, observability, CI/CD
DevOps

MONITORING AS CODE WITH SENSU GO AND SENSUFLOW

SensuFlow, a new prescriptive monitoring as code workflow for SRE devops
monitoring

Todd Campbell & Jef Spaleta CI/CD, sensuctl, sensuctl prune, monitoring as code,
devops monitoring, container monitoring
Use cases

ORGANIZE YOUR MONITORING FLEET WITH SENSU CLUSTER FEDERATION

Sensu federation makes it possible for different Sensu backend clusters to share
some resource configurations while processing events independently. Here's how
it works (with demos!).

Jef Spaleta Federation, scale
How-to

ACHIEVE COMPREHENSIVE OBSERVABILITY WITH SENSU AND ELASTICSEARCH

The Sensu handler for Elasticsearch allows you to integrate Sensu’s
observability pipeline with native Elasticsearch instrumentation for monitoring
and metrics collection. Read on to learn how it works.

Todd Campbell data lake, Elasticsearch, integrations
Use cases

GO FOR SYSTEMS OPERATORS, PART 1: A BRIEF HISTORY OF GO

In this post, Sensu Software Engineer Eric Chlebek shares the history of the Go
programming language, setting the stage for the rest of the series which focuses
on how Go relates to and benefits IT operators.

Eric Chlebek Go, software development, programming
DevOps

KUBERNETES VS. DOCKER SWARM: CHOOSING THE BEST OPTION FOR YOU

Learn the basics of Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, key differences between them,
and pros and cons of each solution.

Todd Campbell Kubernetes, Docker, containers
DevOps

GETTING STARTED WITH MINIKUBE: A MINIKUBE TUTORIAL

Understand what Minikube is, including basic Kubernetes concepts to help you get
started. Learn how to install Minikube and how to use the Minikube dashboard,
and discover tips you can leverage when using Minikube.

Jef Spaleta minikube tutorial, what is minikube, how to install minikube,
minikube dashboard, minikube tips
DevOps

FILLING GAPS IN KUBERNETES OBSERVABILITY WITH THE SENSU KUBERNETES EVENTS
INTEGRATION

Learn more about the Kubernetes Observability Events API - why it matters and
how it can add context for your observability strategy.

Todd Campbell kubernetes, observability, containers, monitoring, cloud
monitoring, nagios alternative
Use cases

HOW TO COLLECT PROMETHEUS METRICS AND STORE THEM ANYWHERE (WITH SENSU!)

By pairing Sensu and Prometheus, you can collect data in a variety of formats
and send it to your database of choice for easier analysis and operations. Learn
how you can use Prometheus transformer to gain deeper visibility into your
infrastructure!

Sean Porter Prometheus vs sensu, container monitoring, prometheus and sensu,
prometheus alternatives, nagios, cloud monitoring
Releases

LDAP AUTHENTICATION WITH SENSU GO: TROUBLESHOOTING & TIPS

Here's how to use LDAP authentication for single-sign on (SSO) with Sensu Go.

Todd Campbell security, ldap
How-to

KNOW YOUR ACCESS CONTROL: RBAC VS. ABAC

Learn the various approaches to access control and find out how access control
methods like RBAC contribute to secure monitoring best practices.

Anna Lugger security, rbac
DevOps

MANAGING SENSU GO 6 USING ANSIBLE

Tadej Borovšak, Ansible Evangelist at XLAB Steampunk, shares his tips on how to
prepare your Ansible playbooks for Sensu Go 6.

Tadej Borovšak Configuration Management, Ansible
How-to

ANNOUNCING THE SENSU REWARDS PROGRAM

Register your Sensu cluster to get tailored-to-you monitoring advice and custom
swag, featuring Lizy, the Sensu mascot.

Iryna Iurchenko Tessen, Sensu rewards
Community

IMPLEMENTING INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE WITH ANSIBLE

In this blog post, Jef Spaleta (Principal Developer Advocate @ Sensu) gives us
an introduction to infrastructure as code best practices using Ansible and Sensu
Go.

Jef Spaleta Ansible, configuration management, infrastructure as code, IaC
How-to

INTEGRATING SENSU GO INTO YOUR CI/CD PIPELINE WITH SENSUCTL PRUNE

Learn how to integrate Sensu Go with your CI/CD pipeline and use the sensuctl
prune command to keep your Sensu resources in a declarative state.

Todd Campbell CICD, sensuctl
How-to

WHAT IS HASHICORP VAULT AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

Learn why HashiCorp Vault is an essential DevOps tool for your organization’s
cloud security.

Anna Lugger Integrations, security, HashiCorp
DevOps

HOW IT PROFESSIONALS CAN CLOSE THE CLOUD SECURITY GAP IN MULTI-CLOUD
ENVIRONMENTS

With hacking not going away any time soon, it’s more vital than ever for
businesses to maintain a proactive approach to cloud security.

Sam Bocetta security, cloud
DevOps

DEVOPS TOOLS FOR COMPLIANCE MONITORING

Learn how you can align your compliance and monitoring efforts — automating
manual processes where possible — with examples from Sensu and InSpec.

Cameron Johnston DevOps, Monitoring, security, compliance
How-to

HOW TO BUILD A SECURITY TEAM WITHOUT BECOMING THE ENEMY

There’s a lot of complexity when it comes to shifting to a security-first
mindset. Learn the key cultural competencies that every successful security team
needs.

Ben Abrams Community, security
Community

💪 UNLOCKING ANOTHER LEVEL OF AUTOMATION WITH SENSU GO 6

Sensu CTO and co-founder Sean Porter shares how we’re unlocking another level of
automation with Sensu Go 6.

Sean Porter Monitoring, Releases, Sensu Go
Releases

THE CASE FOR BORING TECH

Solutions for challenging technical problems shouldn’t result in a whole set of
new ones. We may be solving our problem in a fun way, but we bring on more
complexity as a result of that technology choice.

Sean Porter DevOps, Open Source, Cloud
DevOps

HOW TO USE CHECK AGGREGATES IN SENSU GO



Aaron Sachs Monitoring, How To, Assets
How-to

MOVING (AND MOVING ON UP) TO SENSU GO AT IFORIUM

Michael Eaton, Senior DevOps Engineer at Iforium, shares his monitoring pain
points and his experience with Sensu Go.

Michael Eaton Sensu Go, Customers, Ansible
Testimonials

3 WAYS SECRETS MANAGEMENT IMPROVES MONITORING & OBSERVABILITY

Take a look at secrets management (what it is and the value it brings your
organization) and learn how secrets management in Sensu works with our HashiCorp
Vault integration.

Caleb Hailey monitoring, integrations, security, secrets management, HashiCorp
Use cases

INTEGRATE YOUR IDS + MONITORING WITH THE SENSU TRIPWIRE ASSET

Learn how to integrate intrusion detection into your monitoring workflow with
Sensu and Tripwire.

Sean Porter security, Tripwire, integrations
Use cases

THE EVOLVING APPLICATION LIFECYCLE: FROM DEVOPS TO DEVSECOPS

With the mainstream adoption of DevSecOps, we’re lined up for the next
evolution. The question, what does that look like?

Sean Porter DevOps, cloud, security
DevOps

HOW TO MANAGE DATA IN HYBRID CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

Sensu CTO Sean Porter shares ramifications of hybrid cloud and best practices
for managing your data for increased scalability and heightened availability.

Sean Porter monitoring, cloud, containers, Kubernetes
DevOps

HOW TO SCALE YOUR CLOUD MONITORING WITH SENSU CLUSTERING

Clustering improves Sensu’s availability, allows for node failure, and
distributes network load. Learn how to scale your monitoring by setting up a
three-node cluster in Sensu Go!

Jef Spaleta cloud monitoring, scalable monitoring, kubernetes monitoring, nagios
alternative
How-to

HOW TO PUBLISH AN ASSET WITH THE SENSU GO SDK

Learn how to publish an asset using the Sensu Go SDK and package compiled binary
plugins (including dynamically linked libraries) as assets.

Todd Campbell monitoring, assets
How-to

HOW TO WORK FROM HOME: 9 TIPS FROM THE FOLKS AT SENSU

As a remote-first company, we have our fair share of pro tips for working from
home. Read on for work from home (WFH) resources from the folks at Sensu.

Anna Lugger Remote work, Sensu Inc.
Community

KEEP YOUR CONFIGS IN GOOD ORDER WITH SENSUCTL PRUNE 🌿

We’re excited to share our first-ever alpha feature: sensuctl prune, which will
help you easily (and safely!) remove resources you no longer need.

Simon Plourde configuration management, monitoring, releases, Sensu Go
How-to

MIGRATING TO KUBERNETES

Learn how to approach making Kubernetes the platform on which your workloads
thrive!

Todd Campbell Cloud, Kubernetes, Containers
DevOps

HOW TO SIMPLIFY SNMP IMPLEMENTATION

Learn what SNMP is and some challenges you may have when using it to monitor
your infrastructure!

Jean Tunis Monitoring, Integrations, SNMP, network monitoring
How-to

TLS MONITORING

Outages due to expired certs are far too common and it happens to sites of all
sizes, but are entirely preventable with proper monitoring in place. Read on.

Eric Heydrick Monitoring, Community, security, TLS
Use cases

OBSERVABILITY PIPELINES: WHY YOU NEED ONE, AND WHY YOU SHOULD STOP ROLLING YOUR
OWN

Why you should be using Sensu’s observability pipeline — and why rolling your
own solution from scratch is far too costly."> <meta name="generator

Sean Porter cloud monitoring, container monitoring, kubernetes monitoring, Sensu
vs prometheus, nagios alternative, zabbix alternative, devops monitoring
Use cases

MONITORING MULTI-CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

Sensu CTO Sean Porter examines the challenges of monitoring multi-generational
environments, and how to choose approaches and tools that facilitate a
successful cloud migration.

Sean Porter DevOps, Monitoring, Cloud
DevOps

LOOKING BACK AT ONE YEAR OF SENSU ASSETS & ANNOUNCING A NEW SENSU PLUGINS SDK

Assets were one of the biggest additions in Sensu Go. Developer Advocate Jef
Spaleta looks back at one year of assets, with an update on the roadmap for
Sensu contributors.

Jef Spaleta Integrations, Assets
Community

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BEST PRACTICES CHECKLIST: 5 TIPS FOR BEGINNERS

Check out this list of best programming practices recommended by software
development industry experts.

Ava Franklin Software Development, Software Testing
DevOps

ANNOUNCING THE 2020 SENSU COMMUNITY SUMMIT

The next Sensu Community Summit will be hosted on May 19, 2020 at the Palace
Hotel in San Francisco. Register now to save your place!

Caleb Hailey Events, Community, Sensu Summit
Community

THE BEST DEVOPS TOOLS (ACCORDING TO THE FOLKS BUILDING SENSU)

Here's a roundup of our favorite DevOps tools here at Sensu (no surprise: most
of them are open source!).

Anna Lugger DevOps, Open Source, Software Development
DevOps

CHAOS ENGINEERING + MONITORING, PART 2: FOR STARTERS

When you consider what happens with an incident, the last thing anyone wants is
more monitoring noise, or to be surprised by the information they receive.

Aaron Sachs Monitoring, Testing, Chaos engineering , Gremlin
Use cases

ANNOUNCING V4 OF THE SENSU PUPPET MODULE

Here's what's new with the Sensu Puppet module (and where you can try it out for
yourself).

Trey Dockendorf Configuration, Management, Puppet Integrations
Releases

USING A DEBUG HANDLER WITH SENSU GO

Here's how to create a handler in Sensu Go that will enable you to debug or test
specific pieces of your monitoring infrastructure.

Todd Campbell Monitoring, Testing, Sensu Go
How-to

AUTOMATING MONITORING WITH THE SENSU GO ANSIBLE COLLECTION

Here's how to create a fully functioning automated deployment of the Sensu Go
monitoring agent and backend with the Sensu Go Ansible Collection.

Manca Bizjak Configuration Management, How To, Ansible
How-to

SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN THE PUBLIC CLOUD: WHAT COMPANIES ARE MISSING AND WHY IT
MATTERS

The scale and reach the cloud provides enables massive scale, but you’re also
confronted with regional issues in terms of privacy and security. Here's what's
missing.

Sean Porter Monitoring, security
DevOps

ANNOUNCING SECRETS MANAGEMENT IN SENSU GO

Today, we’re happy to announce the release of secrets management in Sensu Go,
which eliminates the need to expose secrets in your Sensu configuration.

Sean Porter Releases, Sensu Go, security , secrets management
Releases

SECURING SENSU 101

In this post, we go over some tips for securing your monitoring, including
enabling RBAC, SSO, setting up secure network communications, and more.

Todd Campbell security, RBAC, SSO, mTLS
How-to

INTRO TO RBAC IN SENSU GO

Role-based access control (RBAC) helps you lock down access for increased
security and team efficiency. Here's how it works in Sensu Go.

Jef Spaleta Sensu Go, security, RBAC
How-to

REDUCING ALERT FATIGUE WITH GOALERT, TARGET’S ON-CALL SCHEDULING AND
NOTIFICATION PLATFORM

Here's the story of GoAlert, Target's on-call scheduling and notification
platform, plus how they reduce alert fatigue with GoAlert + Sensu Go.

Anna Lugger Monitoring, Community, Customers, assets
Use cases

HEIGHTENED VISIBILITY & DEEPER CONTROL WITH A MONITORING CONTROL PLANE

The control plane is a centralized management interface. In this post, Caleb
discusses the role of a control plane in monitoring — telling the story of how
our users’ need for deep visibility into their applications, and control over
their monitoring.

Caleb Hailey Monitoring, Observability, Cloud
DevOps

🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SENSU GO (PLUS A GIVEAWAY)

It's the one-year anniversary of Sensu Go! To celebrate, we're giving away four
(4) Nintendo Switch™ Lites and one (1) Nintendo Switch™ + a $200 Nintendo eShop
Card as a grand prize.

Anna Lugger Monitoringlove, Sensu Inc., Sensu Go
Community

MONITORING AND OBSERVABILITY: HOW THE TWO CONCEPTS FEED EACH OTHER TO CREATE A
HOLISTIC APPROACH TO VISIBILITY

The whole debate around monitoring versus observability misses the point: the
two are not mutually exclusive, but symbiotic. Sensu CTO Sean Porter discusses.

Sean Porter Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Observability
DevOps

HOW HARVARD AUTOMATES MONITORING WITH SENSU GO

In this recap of Harvard's Molly Duggan's Sensu Summit 2019 talk, we share why
they chose Sensu Go, how they achieved a CI/CD pipeline for monitoring, &amp;
more.

Anna Lugger Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Sensu Summit, Sensu Go
Use cases

KUBERNETES 101

Kubernetes is a production-grade platform as a service for running workloads in
containers. Read on to learn the basics of Kubernetes.

Jef Spaleta Kubernetes, Docker, containers
DevOps

ANNOUNCING THE SENSU ARCHIVES

The Sensu Core 1.x repositories will remain available for all users until April
6, 2020. Read on for more details about Sensu 1.x EOL.

Cameron Johnston Sensu Inc., Product Development, Sensu Go
Community

ONE YEAR OF SENSU GO!

It's hard to believe it's almost been a whole year since the Sensu Go GA
release! Here's a look at how the product has matured and details on an
important upcoming change to how we distribute Sensu.

Caleb Hailey Sensu Inc., Sensu Go
Community

THE Q4'19-Q1'20 SENSU GO PRODUCT ROADMAP

Sensu Go has come a long way since its GA release in December 2019! Here's a
look at what we've accomplished and what's ahead for Q1 2020.

Sean Porter Sensu, Product Development, Sensu Go
Releases

VISUALIZING SENSU GO DATA IN GRAFANA

The Sensu Go data source for Grafana allows you to display the data collected by
Sensu Go together with a wide range of other data on a single Grafana dashboard.
Here's how to set up and use it.

Marius Oehler Dashboard, How To, Integrations, Grafana
How-to

SCALING SENSU GO

In this post, Sensu CTO Sean Porter relays the journey of how we scaled Sensu Go
— gaining 10X improvement in performance in six months — with some tips on how
you can too.

Sean Porter Product Development, Sensu Summit, Software Testing, Sensu Go
Community

CHALLENGES OF BIG INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING

The hodgepodge of technologies brings even more challenges when we’re talking
about big infrastructure. In this post, Sensu CTO Sean Porter discusses.

Sean Porter Observability, Cloud, Software Development
DevOps

BACK TO SCHOOL AT SENSU SUMMIT 2019

On September 9-10, 2019, the community came together for Sensu Summit for talks,
workshops, and a touch of high school nostalgia. Read on for our recap.

Anna Lugger Events, Sensu Summit, Sensu Go
Community

USING ANSIBLE FOR CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

Ansible is a powerful configuration management tool. Learn how to deploy code
&amp; manage system configs without installing agents or complex security tools.

Eric Goebelbecker DevOps, Configuration Management, Ansible
DevOps

DEVOPS TOOLS FOR MONITORING

In this post, we’ll outline our favorite DevOps tools for the monitoring
ecosystem that help dev and ops teams work together effectively.

Anna Lugger DevOps, Configuration Management, Monitoring
DevOps

FIRESIDE CHAT WITH KELSEY HIGHTOWER, PART TWO: ON BUSINESS MODELS, THE EVOLUTION
OF OPERATIONS, AND BRINGING VALUE TO YOUR ORGANIZATION

In this post, we recap the bits of Caleb Hailey, Sean Porter, and Kelsey
Hightower's fireside chat that centered around how modern technology gives rise
to a new understanding of value.

Anna Lugger DevOps, Open Source, Software Development, Sensu Summit
Community

HOW KUBERNETES WORKS

This post walks you through how Kubernetes works, breaking down the individual
components to illustrate how K8s helps you manage the lifecycle of containerized
applications.

Jef Spaleta Docker, Kubernetes, Containers
DevOps

FIRESIDE CHAT WITH KELSEY HIGHTOWER, PART ONE: ON KUBERNETES, LEGACY TECH, AND
THE FUTURE OF MONITORING

At Sensu Summit 2018, Sensu CEO Caleb Hailey, CTO Sean Porter, & Kelsey
Hightower discussed the evolution of monitoring, Kubernetes best practices, &
more.

Anna Lugger Monitoring, Kubernetes, Sensu Summit
Community

CHAOS ENGINEERING + MONITORING, PART 1: SENSU + GREMLIN

In this post, Sensu Customer Reliability Engineer Aaron Sachs gives an overview
of Sensu and Gremlin and how they work together to create actionable alerts.

Aaron Sachs Monitoring, Chaos engineering
How-to

MONITORING KUBERNETES, PART 4: THE SENSU NATIVE APPROACH

Sensu CTO Sean Porter walks us through the Sensu-native approach to monitoring
Kubernetes, including monitoring applications running on Kubernetes.

Sean Porter Monitoring Kubernetes, monitoring Containers, prometheus monitoring,
prometheus and sensu
How-to

DEMONWARE’S JOURNEY TO ASSISTED REMEDIATION

In this post, Sensu VP of Customer Reliability Cameron Johnston highlights the
key decisions that helped Demonware reduce daily alerts, fix underlying
problems, &amp; establish a more engaged Monitoring Team

Cameron Johnston Monitoringlove, Nagios, Monitorama, Customers
Testimonials

RECAPPING MONITORAMA 2019 (OR, WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND MONITORAMA 2020)

Monitorama is the event of the year if you’re in the monitoring and
observability space! It’s an inclusive event for speakers, attendees, and
vendors alike to network and learn from each other in a safe, comfortable, and
accessible environment.

Nikki Attea Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Monitorama
Community

ANNOUNCING TARGET, HARVARD, NCR, & MORE AT SENSU SUMMIT 2019

We’re pleased to announce the schedule for Sensu Summit 2019! Join us for
technical talks &amp; workshops from the folks at Harvard, NCR, Target, &amp;
more.

Anna Lugger monitoringlove, Sensu Summit, customers
Community

THE KEY TO MULTI-CLOUD SUCCESS

While it’s clear that a multi-cloud strategy offers many benefits and
flexibility for an organization, there are also more moving parts to track (with
the added challenge of hybrid, multi-generational infrastructure)

Caleb Hailey Monitoring, Cloud, Containers
DevOps

SECURING YOUR DOCKER CONTAINERS

Though containerization has made it easier to ship better software faster, there
are plenty of considerations when securing your infrastructure. Here are several
baseline tactics you can take to ensure that you're optimizing for safety.

Jef Spaleta Docker, Kubernetes, Containers, security
How-to

YOU’RE INVITED: JOIN US FOR OUR ANNUAL AFTER PARTY AT MONITORAMA

Monitorama is right around the corner, and that means so is our annual after
party! Join us on June 4th at 5:00 PM at Backwoods Brewing Company in Portland.
We’ll enjoy delicious drinks and snacks plus demos and continued conversations.

Molly Shelton Monitoringlove, Events, Monitorama
Community

INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE: TESTING AND MONITORING

Implementing IaC isn't enough; you must also continuously test and monitor your
deployments, unlocking your potential to move faster, safely.

Sean Porter DevOps, Configuration Management, Chef, Integrations, IaC
DevOps

CHEF AUTOMATION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

In this post, Sensu CTO Sean Porter offers a brief introduction to Chef
automation for infrastructure management, with a few tips for getting started.

Sean Porter DevOps, Configuration Management, Chef
DevOps

DEAR BOSS: HERE’S WHY I SHOULD ATTEND SENSU SUMMIT 2019

Need to convince your boss on why you should attend Sensu Summit 2019? Send them
a customized version of this handy “Dear Boss” letter template.

Meg Hartley Events, Sensu Summit
Community

MONITORING KUBERNETES + DOCKER, PART 3: SENSU + PROMETHEUS

Monitoring Kubernetes, addressing some of the cons of Prometheus, showing how
Sensu and Prometheus form a complementary solution.

Sean Porter Monitoring, Kubernetes, Prometheus, cloud monitoring, prometheus
monitoring, prometheus kubernetes
How-to

UNDERSTANDING RBAC IN SENSU GO

Regulating access to resources is a fundamental measure for enterprises to
ensure the security and reliability of a system.

Simon Plourde API, Sensu Go, security, RBAC
How-to

INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE: EVOLUTION AND PRACTICE

As the velocity of deployments increased, and practices such as CI/CD became the
norm, it became critical that we manage infrastructure and deploy applications
in a similar way. In this post, we take a look at the evolution of
infrastructure as code (IaC)

Sean Porter DevOps, Cloud, Software Development, IaC
DevOps

SELF-SERVICE MONITORING CHECKS IN SENSU GO

In Sensu 1.x., standalone check definitions enabled a degree of self-service
monitoring through decentralized configuration; Sensu Go’s built-in role-based
access control (RBAC) takes it to the next level.

Sean Porter Monitoring, Sensu Go, How To
How-to

HOW TO MONITOR 1,000 NETWORK DEVICES USING SENSU GO AND ANSIBLE (IN UNDER 10
MINUTES)

In this post, Becon's Christian Michel covers a brief history of network
monitoring tools — including the pain points of legacy technology when it came
to monitoring thousands of devices — and shares his modern-day solution using
Sensu Go and Ansible.

Christian Michel Configuration Management, Monitoring, Nagios
How-to

FILTERS: VALVES FOR THE SENSU OBSERVABILITY PIPELINE

Using JavaScript filters to express business logic in Observability Pipelines
for hybrid cloud monitoring

Eric Chlebek DevOps, Sensu Go, How To. Assets
How-to

MAKING SENSU SHAREABLE WITH BONSAI, THE SENSU ASSET INDEX

As part of our mission to improve operator experiences, we’re pleased to
announce Bonsai, the Sensu asset index! Bonsai makes discovering and sharing
Sensu solutions easier than ever before.

Sean Porter Monitoring, Sensu Go, Assets
Releases

ANNOUNCING SENSU SUMMIT 2019: THEMES AND CFP

We’re excited to announce this year’s Sensu Summit, happening September 9-10,
2019 at Revolution Hall in Portland, OR, and the launch of our CFP.

Meg Hartley DevOps, Events, Sensu Summit
Community

COMMUNITY ROUNDUP: MAKING THE SWITCH FROM NAGIOS TO SENSU

Love it or hate it, Nagios played a critical role in establishing monitoring as
a practice and helped train a generation of operators who required visibility
into their systems.

Anna Lugger Nagios, Cloud, Customers
Use cases

THE NEXT CHAPTER: ANNOUNCING THE EOL SCHEDULE FOR SENSU CORE 1.X AND SENSU
ENTERPRISE 3.X



Caleb Hailey Company (Sensu inc.), Sensu Go
Releases

MAKING SENSE OF TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS

As the name suggests, a time-series is a representation of an event over a
period of time. That could mean representing the highs and lows of your curling
ice temperature over a year to your application usage data, such as error rates
over time.

Jef Spaleta Monitoring, Graphite, Integrations, time-series, TSDB
How-to

HOW TO MEASURE EVERY API CALL IN YOUR GO APP (IN FEWER THAN 30 LINES OF CODE)

In this blog post, Software Engineer Nikki Attea recaps her GrafanaCon 2019
talk, sharing how to measure every API call in your Go application (including
visualizing StatsD data with Grafana!).

Nikki Attea Dashboard, Sensu Go, How To, Integrations, Grafana
How-to

SENSU GO 5.2: UPDATES & INTRODUCING ENTERPRISE FEATURES IN SENSU GO

This release of version 5.2 introduces Sensu Go's first enterprise-only
features, several enhancements based on feedback from the Sensu Community, and
the general availability of commercial support for Sensu Go. Read on for the
full scoop.

Anna Plotkin Product Development, Releases, Sensu Go
Releases

MONITORING KUBERNETES + DOCKER, PART 2: PROMETHEUS

In part two of this series on monitoring Kubernetes, Sensu CTO Sean Porter gives
a brief overview of Prometheus, illustrates how to collect Kubernetes data with
Prometheus, and discusses some of the pros and cons of the Prometheus approach.

Sean Porter Monitoring, Kubernetes, Containers
How-to

CHECK CONFIGURATION UPGRADES WITH THE SENSU GO SANDBOX

In this post, Developer Advocate Jef Spaleta illustrates a pattern for
converting existing Sensu 1.x check configurations into Sensu Go (using
check_ssh, a familiar Nagios command).

Jef Spaleta Monitoring, Nagios, Sensu Go
How-to

UPGRADING TO SENSU GO: TAKEAWAYS (AND SOLUTIONS) FROM SENSU SUMMIT

Now that Sensu Go is in GA, Developer Advocate Jef Spaleta shares some takeaways
from Sensu Summit 2018, including community feedback and how we're putting that
feedback to work, making it easier to move your existing workloads to Sensu Go.

Jef Spaleta Sensu Go, How To, Jef Practices
How-to

MONITORING KUBERNETES, PART 1: THE CHALLENGES + DATA SOURCES

The advent of microservices paved the way for container technology, empowering
us to rethink how we build and deploy our applications. Docker and Kubernetes,
while making it easier for teams to manage containers, also add a level of
complexity

Sean Porter Kubernetes, Containers, microservices
DevOps

ON THE MERITS OF PUBSUB & WORKFLOWS (OR, WHY SENSU OVER NAGIOS)

In this Sensu Community post, we hear from Sr. Insights Engineer Jason Anderson
on why Willis Towers Watson chose Sensu over Nagios, including his learnings and
favorite features.

Jason Anderson Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Nagios
Testimonials

HANDLING SENSU PLUGIN HANDLERS IN SENSU GO

One of the hurdles with migrating workloads from the classic version of Sensu to
Sensu Go are the changes in the internal event data structure, but we're here to
help! Here's how to handle Sensu Plugin handlers in Sensu Go.

Jef Spaleta Monitoring, Sensu Go, How To
How-to

SENSU GO IS HERE!

Sensu Go is now in General Availability (GA)! Sensu Go features human-centered
design by making it easier to use Sensu. We went from operations having to do
the heavy lifting to creating a user-centric, self-service, and highly scalable
product.

Anna Plotkin Kubernetes monitoring, prometheus monitoring, prometheus and sensu,
nagios alternative, cloud monitoring, observability pipeline
Releases

HOW BOX.COM MIGRATED 350K NAGIOS OBJECTS TO SENSU

In this recap of a Sensu Summit 2018 talk, we share the story of how Box.com
migrated 350K Nagios objects to Sensu, including a look at their infrastructure,
how they went about the migration, and what's next.

Anna Lugger Monitoringlove, Nagios, Customers
Testimonials

ALERT FATIGUE, PART 5: FINE-TUNING & SILENCING

In part 5 of this series, Community Maintainer Ben Abrams dives deeper into fine
tuning Sensu, including how to configure flap detection, silencing, and Safe
Mode, as well as extending handler configurations. Read on to learn how.

Ben Abrams Monitoring, Community, alert fatigue, silencing
How-to

ANNOUNCING TESSEN, THE SENSU CALL-HOME SERVICE

As a monitoring company, it’s only natural that we’d always seek more data to
inform our product decisions.

Sean Porter Monitoring, Product Development
Releases

ANNOUNCING THE SENSU ROADMAP & SENSU GO RELEASE DATE

In this post, Director of Product Anna Plotkin shares the official roadmap and
Beta releases leading up to the General Availability (GA) release date for Sensu
Go, the latest and greatest version of Sensu.

Anna Plotkin Company (Sensu inc.), Product Development, Releases, Sensu Go
Releases

PULL, DON’T PUSH: ARCHITECTURES FOR MONITORING AND CONFIGURATION IN A
MICROSERVICES ERA

Expanding on his Sensu Summit 2018 talk, Chef Director of Product Marketing
Julian Dunn discusses systems design in an era of complex distributed systems
(plus some recommendations).

Julian Dunn Configuration Management, Software Development, Chef, microservices
DevOps

ALERT FATIGUE, PART 4: ALERT CONSOLIDATION

In part 4 in this series on alert fatigue, Community Maintainer Ben Abrams
covers alert consolidation, which helps you cut through the “white noise” and
focus on what's important (especially in the middle of a major incident).

Ben Abrams Monitoring, Community, alert fatigue
How-to

EXPLORE SENSU WORKFLOWS & LESSON PLANS WITH THE SENSU SANDBOX

We’re excited to share that we’ve created an easy to use — and reusable — Sensu
sandbox environment to help folks learn how to work with Sensu monitoring event
pipelines.

Jef Spaleta Monitoring, Testing, Sensu Go
How-to

ALERT FATIGUE, PART 3: AUTOMATING TRIAGE & REMEDIATION WITH CHECK HOOKS &
HANDLERS

In part 3 in a series on alert fatigue, Community Maintainer Ben Abrams dives
deeper into fine-tuning Sensu to reduce alert fatigue. In this article, he walks
us through automating triage & remediation with checks hooks & handlers.

Ben Abrams Monitoring, alert fatigue, check hooks, handlers
How-to

CHOOSING AN ENTERPRISE MONITORING SOLUTION: TOP 7 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

Any organization that deals with customer data understands the importance of
protecting that data. There are many tools and technologies available to help
ensure a secure experience for your users.

Sean Porter Monitoring, Cloud, security
DevOps

ALERT FATIGUE, PART 2: ALERT REDUCTION WITH SENSU FILTERS & TOKEN SUBSTITUTION



Ben Abrams Monitoring, alert fatigue
How-to

ALERT FATIGUE, PART 1: AVOIDANCE AND COURSE CORRECTION

In part 1 in a series on alert fatigue, Doximity's Ben Abrams discusses the real
costs of alert fatigue, plus a few steps you can take to mitigate.

Ben Abrams Monitoring, alert fatigue, community
How-to

BUILDING + TESTING OPEN SOURCE MONITORING TOOLS

In this post, Software Engineer Mercedes Coyle shares the motivations behind
building open source software, Sensu's approach to testing, and the critical
role community plays in building better software.

Mercedes Coyle Open Source, Software Testing, Sensu Go
Community

USING NGINX FOR TARGETED ACCESS TO THE SENSU CORE 1.4 API

NGINX can be used as a proxy to provide authenticated access to specific
endpoints for any RESTful service API — including the Sensu API. Here's an NGINX
configuration to grant external service provides narrow access to only create
check results

Jef Spaleta Monitoring, nginx
How-to

WORKFLOW AUTOMATION FOR MONITORING: 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE SENSU
OBSERVABILITY PIPELINE

The collection of monitoring data is essentially a solved problem; the challenge
is connecting that data with the systems and tools you rely upon. In this post,
Sensu CEO Caleb Hailey describes how approaching monitoring as a workflow can
help.

Caleb Hailey cloud monitoring, observability pipeline, workflow automation,
kubernetes monitoring, nagios alternative
DevOps

TALES OF SCALE, MULTI-GEN INFRASTRUCTURE, & MONITORING KUBERNETES AT SENSU
SUMMIT 2018

For Sensu Summit 2018, we got together at the Portland Art Museum to hear about
Kubernetes, customer stories of scale and legacy infrastructure, monitoring
how-tos, and workflow automation for monitoring. Read on for a recap, plus
slides and videos.

Anna Lugger Monitoringlove, Sensu Summit, Sensu Go
Community

MIGRATING TO SENSU, AS TOLD BY A NAGIOS REFUGEE

One of our favorite stories at Sensu is hearing how our customers are using,
repurposing, and even replacing their Nagios setup.

Anna Lugger cloud monitoring, nagios, replace nagios, zabbix
Testimonials

MIGRATING TO 2.0: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY

Sensu 2.0 release is dropping in October, with significant changes from Sensu
1.x.

Jef Spaleta Community, Sensu Go, How To
How-to

SENSU AT MICROSOFT RESEARCH

Kris Zentner, Senior Service Engineer at Microsoft AI and Research, shares some
of the open source tools and technology he uses at Microsoft. Here's at a look
at their monitoring setup, plus what he's excited about for Sensu 2.0.

Kris Zentner Monitoringlove, Nagios, Sensu Go
Testimonials

THE STORY OF NAGIOS PLUGIN SUPPORT IN SENSU (OR, WHY SERVICE CHECKS ARE SO
AMAZING)

A key part of the Sensu story is our support for Nagios service checks. In this
post, CTO Sean Porter shares the story of Nagios plugin support in Sensu
(including how to share stories of your own).

Sean Porter Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Nagios, Integrations
Community

HOW TO BUILD HIGHLY EXPRESSIVE CHECK RESULTS WITH SENSU-WRAPPER

With sensu-wrapper, you can drive output and status of command-line utilities
running outside of the Sensu client, PLUS inform the Sensu server that the Sensu
client failed to start. Read on to learn how.

Jef Spaleta Monitoring, checks
How-to

ADDING CONTEXT TO YOUR SENSU CHECKS WITH OSQUERY

Osquery offers a SQL query interface for collecting system information from
disparate subsystems across multiple supported platforms.

Jef Spaleta Monitoring, Open Source
How-to

MONITORING AT SCALE, MICROSERVICES, & MORE AT SENSU SUMMIT 2018

It’s almost time! Sensu Summit is coming up August 22-23, and we’re thrilled to
share the event schedule and speaker lineup. Join us for two days of talks and
workshops, with great conversations and plenty of #monitoringlove.

Meg Hartley Monitoringlove, Community, Sensu Summit
Community

SENSU: MONITORING AS A SERVICE (PART 1): MONITORING EXTERNAL SERVICES WITH SENSU
CORE 1.4 PROXY CLIENTS

Many of us are building applications that rely on a mix of microservices spread
throughout the network, but it's important to keep an eye on them. Sensu
provides a very simple way to poll external service availability in the form of
a proxy check request

Jef Spaleta Monitoring
How-to

CHECK OUTPUT METRIC EXTRACTION WITH INFLUXDB & GRAFANA

With Sensu’s robust event pipeline, you can cater different methods of metric
analysis for application performance monitoring, system metrics and telemetry
data, &amp; metric aggregation.

Nikki Attea Dashboard, Sensu Go, How To, Integrations, Grafana
How-to

ANNOUNCING KELSEY HIGHTOWER AT SENSU SUMMIT

We’re super excited to announce that open source advocate (and all-around
rockstar) Kelsey Hightower with be keynoting Sensu Summit 2018! If you haven’t
already, snag tickets by July 31 to save with our early bird discount.

Meg Hartley Monitoringlove, Open Source, Sensu Inc., Sensu Summit
Community

THE POWER OF PROPOSALS (AND OPEN SOURCE CULTURE)

I come from a world where strategy is best kept secret. Whether it be from a
company who has a codename for literally everything, or the competitive culture
of playing and coaching D1 athletics…

Nikki Attea Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Open Source, Community
Community

JOIN US FOR A MONITORAMA AFTER PARTY 🍹

On June 5, after the second day of Monitorama talks wraps up, head over to The
Pearl Tavern for drinks, demos, and continued #monitoringlove conversations.

Meg Hartley Monitoringlove, Sensu, Monitoring, Open Source, Events, Monitorama
Community

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND SENSU SUMMIT (AS TOLD TO YOUR BOSS)

As you may know, we’re hosting our second-annual customer conference in
Portland, August 21–23. We’ll hear from the best and brightest in ops and
monitoring, get together for a community hack day…

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Open Source, Events, Sensu Summit
Community

🎉 ANNOUNCING SENSU 2.0 BETA 🎉

We’re excited to announce that Sensu 2.0 Beta is now publicly available for
testing! Sensu 2.0 is easier to install and operate, requiring only a single
sensu-backend process and sensu-agent process…

Greg Poirier Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Software Development, API, Sensu Go
Releases

CALLING ALL SPEAKERS: SUBMIT YOUR TALK FOR SENSU SUMMIT 2018

We recently announced our second-ever Sensu Summit, August 22–23 in Portland,
Oregon. Last year, we heard some amazing talks from our customers, friends, and
community, and we want to keep up the…

Meg Hartley DevOps, Monitoring, Events, Nagios, Sensu Summit, Containers
Community

ANNOUNCING THE 2018 SENSU SUMMIT

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly an entire year since we announced the
inaugural Sensu Summit, which ended up being an even bigger success than we had
hoped! Close to 100 people gathered in the…

Caleb Hailey DevOps, Sensu, Monitoring, Events, Sensu Summit
Community

ANNOUNCING SENSU’S SERIES A FINANCING

I’m very pleased to announce that Sensu Inc has raised $10M in Series A
financing led by Battery Ventures, with participation by seed-stage investor
Foundry Group. Dharmesh Thakker (General Partner…

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Startup, Sensu Inc.
Community

SENSU 2.0 ACCELERATED FEEDBACK PROGRAM

We’re very excited to have Sensu 2.0 in the hands of our users. To better
understand how folks use Sensu, we’re starting the Accelerated Feedback Program
(AFP). This is a private, high-touch…

Jason Dixon Monitoringlove, Sensu, Monitoring, Product Development, Sensu Go
Releases

A PRIMER ON SENSU DASHBOARDS

Replacing Nagios with Sensu and Grafana for Cloud Monitoring

Chris Chandler nagios, zabbix, alternative, replacement, cloud, container,
prometheus, kubernetes, monitoring
How-to

FLIPPING THE BIT ON SENSU 2.0



Jason Dixon Monitoringlove, Sensu, Monitoring. Releases, Sensu Go
Releases

OUR JOURNEY IMPLEMENTING SENSU TO MONITOR KUBERNETES IN PRODUCTION

Kubernetes Prometheus Monitoring with Sensu

Andy Repton cloud monitoring, container monitoring, kubernetes monitoring, Sensu
vs prometheus, nagios alternative, zabbix alternative
Use cases

CONTRIBUTING TO SENSU: UPDATING RUBOCOP TO RESOLVE CVE-2017–8418

Contributing to Sensu: Updating Rubocop to resolve CVE-2017–8418

Ben Abrams Monitoring, Open Source, Community, Ruby, Integrations, Security
Community

OUT OF MAINTENANCE MODE

A few months ago I announced an idea I’m now quite proud of: our community
needed some time in Maintenance Mode. How did we know we needed it? To review
our challenges that lead us here, we had: That…

Matthew (Brender) Broberg Monitoringlove, Open Source, Community, Sensu Inc.,
How To
Community

SENSU AGGREGATES

This is a guest post to the Sensu Blog by Michael Eves, member to the Sensu
community. He offered to share his experience as a user in his own words, which
you can do too by emailing…

Michael Eves Monitoring, Open Source, Community, Software Development, How To
Use cases

OUR APPROACH TO TESTING SENSU PLUGINS

This is a guest post to the Sensu Blog from Ben Abrams, one of the lead
maintainers of the Sensu Plugins organization. He offered to share his thoughts
in his own words, which you can do too by…

Ben Abrams Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Community, Software Development, Testing,
Integrations
Releases

WRITING SENSU PLUGIN TESTS WITH TEST-KITCHEN AND SERVERSPEC

This is a guest post to the Sensu Blog from Ben Abrams, one of the lead
maintainers of the Sensu Plugins organization. He offered to share his thoughts
in his own words, which you can do too by…

Ben Abrams Monitoring, Open Source, Community, Ruby, Software Testing,
Integrations , Chef
Use cases

THE ROAD AHEAD FOR SENSU

Back in July, I proudly announced the release of Sensu Core 1.0 (a huge
milestone!) and provided a list of major features and assets to be developed in
Q3 and Q4 of 2017. The list included Check…

Sean Porter Monitoringlove, Sensu, Monitoring, Sensu Go
Use cases

HOW TO GET STARTED WITH SENSU USING PUPPET

NOTE: This is a guest post by Garrett Honeycutt of LearnPuppet. As mentioned in
an earlier post, we’ve been working with Garrett and his team to enhance the
Sensu module for Puppet. This…

Garrett Honeycutt DevOps, Configuration Management, Monitoring, Puppet, Partners
How-to

SENSU METRICS COLLECTION

This is a guest post to the Sensu Blog by Michael Eves, member to the Sensu
community. He offered to share his experience as a user in his own words, which
you can do too by emailing…

Michael Eves Monitoring, Open Source Community, Graphite, How To
How-to

USING CHECK HOOKS

Team Sensu recently released Sensu Core 1.1, which includes a powerful new
feature called Check Hooks. Check Hooks are commands run by the Sensu client in
response to the result of check command…

Sean Porter DevOps, Sensu, Product Development
How-to

UPCOMING SENSU TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Back in May of this year, we shared the history of Sensu Training, and announced
a new webinar format for Sensu Training. We also published a schedule of FREE
webinar sessions covering the complete…

Caleb Hailey Sensu, Monitoring, Open Source, Training
Community

JIM ANDREWS IS A SENSEI

NOTE: Jim joined Team Sensu on May 1, 2017, in the middle of a period of rapid
headcount growth. This belated announcement is one in a series to catch up on
introducing our new team members to the…

Caleb Hailey Sensu, New Hire
Community

MATT BROBERG IS A SENSEI

We’re excited to welcome Matt Broberg as the newest member of the Sensu
Leadership team!

Caleb Hailey Sensu, New Hire
Community

VISIT SENSU AT PUPPETCONF 2017, ENTER TO WIN A NINTENDO SWITCH!

Sensu is thrilled to be a Silver sponsor for PuppetConf 2017. PuppetConf is a
DevOps, cloud management, next-generation infrastructure, and application
delivery conference presented by Puppet in San…

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Sensu, Puppet, Open Source, Events, Integrations
Community

MERCEDES COYLE IS A SENSEI

We’re excited to welcome Matt Broberg as the newest member of the Sensu
Leadership team!

Caleb Hailey Sensu, Startup, Open Source, Company (Sensu inc.), New Hire
Community

LEARNING FROM LUKE

Hold on while I pinch myself… Yes, this is actually happening! Luke Kanies
(Founder of Puppet) is joining Sensu Inc as a Strategic Advisor to help guide us
on our journey.

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Puppet, Sensu Inc., New Hire
Community

PROMETHEUS MONITORING USING THE SENSU PROMETHEUS COLLECTOR

Prometheus Monitoring using the Sensu Prometheus Collector for Kubernetes and
container monitoring

Sean Porter prometheus monitoring, prometheus, kubernetes, container,
monitoring, sensu prometheus
How-to

JAMES PHILLIPS IS A SENSEI

NOTE: James joined Team Sensu on April 18, 2017, in the middle of a period of
rapid headcount growth. This belated announcement is one in a series to catch up
on introducing our new team members to…

Caleb Hailey Sensu, New Hire
Community

INTERVIEWING ENGINEERS AT SENSU

Interviewing Engineers at Sensu – The Sensu Blog

Greg Poirier Sensu, Sensu Inc., New Hire
Community

A BETTER EXPERIENCE FOR SENSU & PUPPET USERS

One of Sensu’s core design tenets has always been to work in lockstep with the
best Configuration Management (CM) systems. Even before Sensu existed as a
product and now as a company, we were helping…

Jason Dixon DevOps, Configuration Management, Sensu, Monitoring, Puppet
Community

THE FUTURE OF SENSU

One year ago this week, on Sensu’s birthday, Sean Porter wrote about the first
five years of Sensu. A lot about the OSS project, enterprise product, and the
company behind Sensu has changed since…

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Startup, Open Source, Sensu Inc., Sensu Summit
Community

SENSU CORE VERSION 1.0 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

I am thrilled to announce the general release of Sensu Core version 1.0, which
is now available to download and install. This release represents a significant
milestone for Sensu. The journey from a…

Sean Porter Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Docker, Sensu Inc., Release Notes,
Releases
Releases

COMMUNITY MAINTENANCE MODE

TL;DR the current maintainers of Sensu Plugins and I have decided to slow down
on regular issue support so we can speed up on version 0.29 (and the impeding
Sensu version 1.0!) compatibility and…

Matthew (Brender) Broberg DevOps, Sensu, Monitoring, Open Source, Community,
Testing
Community

SENSU CORE VERSION 0.24 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

We are very excited to announce the general release of Sensu Core version 0.24,
which is now available to download and install. This release is an important
milestone on Sensu’s journey to “version…

Caleb Hailey Release Notes
Releases

SENSU SUMMIT 2017 REGISTRATION & CFP

The inaugural Sensu Summit is fast approaching. Registration and a call for
presentations are available now on the Sensu website at
https://sensuapp.org/summit. We’ll be updating that page in the…

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Open Source, Events, Sensu Summit
Community

SENSU TRAINING REDUX

UPDATE (June 27, 2017): webinar sessions for the remainder of the series have
been added (See “Sensu Administrator Track” and “Sensu Developer Track” below).
A new public Sensu Training webinar…

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Startup, Open Source, Training
Community

ANNOUNCEMENT: SENSU CORE REPOSITORIES ADDING HTTPS, IPV6 AND HTTP/2 SUPPORT

Summary: On Wednesday, May 17th 2017, the Sensu Core repositories will be
redirected to a new CDN distribution enabling SSL, IPv6 and HTTP/2 access
methods.

Cameron Johnston Configuration Management, Open Source, Partners, Product
Development
Releases

SENSU SUMMIT 2017

An inaugural Sensu community event will be held August 15–16, 2017 at the
Portland Art Museum!

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Startup, Events, Community, Sensu Summit
Community

GREG POIRIER IS A SENSEI

It is with great pleasure that am able to formally introduce Greg Poirier as
employee #9 at Sensu, Inc. and our newly anointed VP of Engineering.

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Startup, Company (Sensu inc.), New Hire
Community

JASON DIXON IS A SENSEI

It is with great pleasure that we are able to formally introduce Jason Dixon as
employee #10 at Sensu, Inc. and our new VP of Business Development! Jason’s
qualifications may precede himself, but…

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Company (Sensu inc.), Monitorama, Graphite, New
Hire
Community

SIMON PLOURDE IS A SENSEI

It is with great pleasure that am able to formally introduce Simon Plourde as
employee #8 at Sensu, Inc.––our first hire following the VC investment, and our
newest Engineer! Most of you will know…

Caleb Hailey Open Source, Company (Sensu inc.), Dashboard New Hire
Community

THE SENSU PARTY @ MONITORAMA 2017

Stop by the FREE Sensu after-party to learn more about Sensu, and see a live
demo of what’s coming for the Sensu open-source monitoring framework.

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Monitoring, Events, Monitorama
Community

INTRODUCING THE SENSU PARTNER NETWORK

The Sensu Partner Network will help align organizations around the world that
bring added-value to the Sensu monitoring framework and Sensu Enterprise
product.

Jason Dixon DevOps, Company (Sensu inc.), Partners, Becon
Community

DEPRECATED SENSU REPOSITORIES TO BE SHUT DOWN

The deprecated Sensu package repositories available at repos.sensuapp.org, will
be shut down on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017.

Caleb Hailey Releases, How To
Releases

SENSU CORE VERSION 0.27 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

We are very excited to announce the general release of Sensu Core version 0.27,
which is now available to download and install.

Caleb Hailey Release, Notes Releases
Releases

INTRODUCING: SENSU, INC.

It is with incredible pleasure and gratitude that we are able to announce today
that Heavy Water Operations has formally changed its name to Sensu, Inc. and has
secured $2.5M in Series Seed financing.

Caleb Hailey Startup, Venture Capital, Company (Sensu inc.)
Community

SENSU ENTERPRISE VERSION 2.3 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

We are very excited to announce the general release of Sensu Enterprise version
2.3, which is now available to download and install.

Caleb Hailey Graphite, Release Notes, Releases, Wavefront, Integrations
Releases

SENSU ENTERPRISE VERSION 2.2 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

We are very excited to announce the general release of Sensu Enterprise version
2.2, which is now available to download and install. This release includes
introduces two new built-in integrations as…

Caleb Hailey Release Notes, Rollbar
Releases

MIGRATING TO SENSU NATIVE SILENCING

Learn the specifics of our new approach to silencing and the possibilities it
unlocks.

Cameron Johnston Ruby, Release Notes, API
How-to

SENSU CORE VERSION 0.26 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

We are very excited to announce the general release of Sensu Core version 0.26,
which is now available to download and install. This release includes introduces
a number of new features and notable…

Caleb Hailey Release Notes
Releases

FIVE YEARS OF SENSU

Although Sensu wouldn’t become a publicly available open-source project until
November 2011, the Sensu journey officially began five years ago this week. Five
years ago I committed an empty README.md…

Sean Porter Monitoringlove, Sensu, Company (Sensu inc.), Product Development,
Releases
Community

DEPRECATING EVENT FILTERING IN SENSU-PLUGIN

If you are like many Sensu users, you’ve come to rely on event handlers from the
Sensu Plugins project for sending notifications to on-call personnel. These
handler plugins automatically apply…

Cameron Johnston Product Development, Releases, How To, Integrations
Releases

ICYMI: SENSU PARTY @ MONITORAMA 2016 RECAP

Hello friends. We wanted to say “thanks!” to everyone who came out to the Sensu
Party @Monitorama! It was nice to meet many of the faces behind the names we see
on the interwebs (e.g. Sensu IRC…

Caleb Hailey Monitorama
Community

SENSU JOINS THE CHEF PARTNER COOKBOOK PROGRAM!

We are very proud to announce that Sensu is now a part of the Chef Partner
Cookbook Program.

JJ Asghar DevOps, Company (Sensu inc.), Partners, Chef, Integrations
Community

SENSU ENTERPRISE VERSION 1.14 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

We are very excited to announce the general release of Sensu Enterprise version
1.14, which is now available to download and install. This release makes the new
features found in Sensu Core version…

Caleb Hailey Release Notes
Releases

SENSU CORE VERSION 0.25 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

We are very excited to announce the general release of Sensu Core version 0.25,
which is now available to download and install. This release is primarily
focused on performance and portability…

Caleb Hailey Release Notes, Design, Mobile
Releases

SENSU ENTERPRISE VERSION 1.13 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

We are very excited to announce the general release of Sensu Enterprise version
1.13.0, which is now available to download and install. This release makes the
new features found in Sensu Core version.

Caleb Hailey Sensu, Release Notes. Releases
Releases

THE SENSU PARTY @ MONITORAMA 2016

Are you planning on attending Monitorama 2016? Would you like to learn more
about Sensu? Stop by the FREE Sensu after-party after the closing talk on
Tuesday, June 28 to learn more about the Sensu…

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Events, Monitorama
Community

SO FRESH, SO CLEAN

Hi Friends! As Sensu continues to gain momentum and attract new users, we want
to continue to improve the new user onboarding experience, and make it as
seamless as possible. Although we think the…

Caleb Hailey Sensu, Company (Sensu inc.), Design, UX
Community

FROM OPEN SOURCE TO OPEN CORE: THE HARD WAY

This is the story of Sensu’s journey from an open source software project to
open core software platform; or, a look back at one year of Sensu Enterprise & a
look ahead at what’s next.

Caleb Hailey Monitoringlove, Startup, Open Source, Company (Sensu inc.)
Community

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