Sensu – What I've Learnt

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Sensu is really designed for architectures that add and remove nodes in a jiffy.

One nit pick I've is that, rabbitmq is really hard to debug. I've mulitple cases of keepalives (sensu's version of are you up check) because of timeouts.

Sensu was originally built to solve the problem of having to monitor ephemeral nodes[1], now however, it's a a versatile monitoring platform. I would argue that it's much more than just what it was originally designed for.

Regarding RabbitMQ and difficulty in debugging: it's true. You can now use Redis as a transport if you like. I'm sure support for other transports will be added in time, too.

1. https://puppetlabs.com/presentations/puppet-sensu-love-infra...

I hadn’t heard of any of the tools in the post, so when I read the first paragraph, I thought it was satire of the proliferation of bizarrely named JavaScript frameworks.

I wrote this article and this made me laugh, so thanks :)

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