Sensu products
Built on an open source foundation, Sensu offers truly cloud-native availability and performance monitoring pipeline designed by seasoned operations-engineers-turned-developers, for operators and developers.
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Product overview
Sensu empowers businesses to automate their monitoring workflow and gain deep visibility into their infrastructure, applications, and operations.
Product features
Here’s a detailed look at the differences between the open source Sensu Go and enterprise-only features.
Product table
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| License | MIT | Sensu | Sensu |
| Usage Limits | N/A | Up to 1,000 nodes | Unlimited |
| Federation (number of sites) | 1 | 1 | Unlimited |
| Distribution | Source Code (User Compiled) | Signed binaries & installer packages | Supported binaries & installer packages |
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| Bare metal server monitoring |  |
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| Public cloud monitoring (virtual machine & compute instance monitoring) | |
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| Container monitoring | |
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| Automated discovery & deregistration | |
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| Service health checks & custom metrics | |
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| Nagios, StatsD, and Prometheus compatibility | |
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| SNMP polling | |
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| RBAC & namespaces | |
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| Basic auth | |
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| Enterprise authentication (LDAP, Active Directory, OIDC, SAML) | |
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| Aggregate service health monitoring | |
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| SNMP Trap Receiver | |
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Dashboard features |
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| Real-time incident dashboard | |
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| Real-time inventory dashboard | |
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Homepage |
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Single-site multi-tenant dashboard (multi-namespace views) |
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Resource configuration in UI |
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Supported Grafana Datasource for Sensu Go |
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Multi-site multi-tenant dashboard (Federated dashboard) |
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Extensibility |
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Custom plugin language support (e.g. C, C++, Golang, Ruby, Javascript/NodeJS, Rust, C#, Perl, etc) |
Any language |
Any language |
Any language |
Discovery, Inventory, token-based authentication |
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200+ community support plugins |
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Officially supported plugins & integrations (ServiceNow, JIRA, ElasticSearch, Splunk, Ansible, Moogsoft, etc) |
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Advanced API filtering |
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gRPC extensions API (high performance integration API) |
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Support & Services |
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Community Support (Slack & Discourse) |
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Commercial Support with SLA |
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Professional Services & Training |
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