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Sensu Go may be used as an open-source solution or a commercially licensed product with access to compiled binaries, Sensu support, and other great features.
The OSS version is distributed as MIT-licensed code that can be compiled from source.
The Sensu Go commercial distribution provides significant added-value beyond the core functionality of the open source project. We’re proud to offer all of these great features for FREE for your first 100 nodes. When it comes to larger-scale deployments where the scalability, integration, and security of your observability solution are mission-critical, Sensu Go offers an incredible value for less than 1¢ per node per hour.
Here’s a detailed look at the differences between the Sensu Go OSS project and the commercial distribution.
| Licensing & distribution | Open Source Commercial Distribution |
| License | MIT Sensu License |
| Free usage limits | No limit 100 nodes free |
| Pricing for additional nodes | Free $3-$5/mo per node |
| Distribution | Source code only Signed binaries & packages |
| Monitoring features | Open Source | Commercial Distribution |
|---|---|---|
| Server monitoring | ||
| Container monitoring | ||
| Real-time inventory | ||
| Health checks & custom metrics | ||
| Alerts & incident management | ||
| Automated remediation & custom workflows | ||
| 200+ community plugins | ||
| 50+ commercially supported plugins & integrations (ServiceNow, JIRA, ElasticSearch, Splunk, Ansible, Moogsoft, etc.) |
| Server monitoring | |
| Container monitoring | |
| Real-time inventory | |
| Health checks & custom metrics | |
| Alerts & incident management | |
| Automated remediation & custom workflows | |
| 200+ community plugins | |
| 50+ commercially supported plugins & integrations (ServiceNow, JIRA, ElasticSearch, Splunk, Ansible, Moogsoft, etc.) | |
| Real-time incident dashboard | |
| Real-time inventory dashboard | |
| Multi-tenant dashboard (single-site) | |
| Multi-site dashboard (federation) | |
| Resource management dashboard (real-time config mgmt.) | |
| Grafana UI datasource | |
| Custom plugins/scripts language support (e.g. C, C++, Golang, Ruby, Javascript/NodeJS, Rust, C#, Perl, Bash, etc) | Any language Any language |
| Discovery, Inventory, Config Management APIs | |
| Token-based API authentication (JWTs) | |
| Persistent API token authentication (service accounts) | |
| API Response Filtering (Field Selectors) | |
| API Response Filtering (Label Selectors) | |
| High Performance Streaming data handlers | |
| Namespaces and RBAC | |
| Built-in configuration management database (embedded etcd) | |
| Built-in transport (TLS-encrypted websockets w/ support for self-signed certificates) | |
| Built-in user management (basic auth) | |
| Agent authentication via username and password (basic auth) | |
| Agent authentication via mTLS (certificate auth) | |
| Secrets management (Basic) | |
| Secrets management (HashiCorp Vault) | |
| Single sign-on (SSO) (LDAP, AD, OIDC) | |
| Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) integration for mTLS agent auth | |
| Certificate Revocation List (CRL) integration for mTLS agent auth | |
| High Performance Event Processing backend | |
| Multi-site federation (Auth provider & RBAC resource replication) | |
| Services & support | Open Source | Commercial Distribution |
|---|---|---|
| Bonsai (hosted Sensu Asset Index & CDN) | ||
| Community support (Discourse, Slack) | ||
| Commercial support with SLA | ||
| Training and professional services |
| Bonsai (hosted Sensu Asset Index & CDN) | |
| Community support (Discourse, Slack) | |
| Commercial support with SLA | |
| Training and professional services | |
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