Sensu is a flexible monitoring tool designed for distributed systems and ephemeral infrastructure. It uses a publish/subscribe model for check execution, making it ideal for dynamic cloud environments and containerized workloads.
- Sensu Go: 6.13.1 (May 2026)
- Event-driven monitoring: Publish/subscribe architecture
- Auto-discovery: Dynamic entity discovery
- Flexible checks: Custom checks with any language
- Handlers: Multiple notification and action handlers
- API-driven: RESTful API for automation
- Multi-tenant: Namespace-based multi-tenancy
- Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- Container and Kubernetes monitoring
- Microservices monitoring
- Dynamic infrastructure monitoring
- DevOps monitoring pipelines
- Backend: Go
- Agent: Go
- Web UI: TypeScript, React
- MIT (Sensu Go)
- Commercial editions available
- Open-source Sensu Go available
- Sensu Enterprise with additional features
- Active development
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