Sensu Inc. is the creator and maintainer of Sensu, the open source monitoring event pipeline. Founded in 2017, Sensu empowers businesses to automate their monitoring workflow and gain deep visibility into their Kubernetes, hybrid cloud, and bare metal infrastructure. Backed by one of the largest open source communities in monitoring, companies like Sony, Box.com, and Activision rely on Sensu to help them deliver value to their customers faster, at larger scale. Sensu maintains the free and open source Sensu Core framework as well as the commercially supported Sensu Enterprise, which offers enhanced features to simplify operations and governance, with multi-cloud support for monitoring at scale.
Sensu’s latest product version is Sensu Go, an end-to-end event monitoring software built on an open source core and hosted entirely in the cloud. Written in Go and designed to provide a more frictionless deployment, Sensu Go is now friendlier than ever to containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Foundry) and cloud compute instances. Scalable, automated workflows allow for easy integration with whatever existing tools your team may use. Sensu Go has built-in integrations for metric extraction in InfluxDB line protocol, and the team wrote the sensu-influxdb-handler so users of Sensu Go can populate a time series database with metrics collected and aggregated in Sensu.
Additional resources
- Blog: Sensu and InfluxDB: Storing Data from Metrics Collection Checks
- Blog: InfluxData and Sensu Offer Joint Solution to Handle Time Series Data in Monitoring Event Pipeline
- Blog: Event Monitoring Visibility Made Easy: Sensu Check Metric Extraction with InfluxDB and Grafana
- InfluxDB Template: Sensu Go Monitoring Template
Open source observability pipeline
Enabling better workflow and infrastructure monitoring
Containerized deployments made easy
Using their cloud-hosted solution that is written in Go
Eliminated data silos
Collecting and analyzing data from disparate sources
Technologies Used
“InfluxDB’s API is so straightforward and easy to use. It’s been great for storing monitoring metrics!”