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
Tier | OSS | Free | Licensed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensing, usage, and distribution | |||
| 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 |
Core features | |||
| Bare metal server monitoring |  | | |
| Public cloud monitoring (virtual machine & compute instance monitoring) | | | |
| Container monitoring | | | |
| Automated discovery & deregistration | | | |
| Service health checks & custom metrics | | | |
| Nagios, StatsD, and Prometheus compatibility | | | |
| SNMP polling | | | |
| RBAC & namespaces | | | |
| Basic auth | | | |
| Enterprise authentication (LDAP, Active Directory, OIDC, SAML) | | ||
| Aggregate service health monitoring | | ||
| SNMP Trap Receiver | | ||
Dashboard features | |||
| Real-time incident dashboard | | | |
| Real-time inventory dashboard | | | |
Homepage | | | |
Single-site multi-tenant dashboard (multi-namespace views) | | | |
Resource configuration in UI | | ||
Supported Grafana Datasource for Sensu Go | | ||
Multi-site multi-tenant dashboard (Federated dashboard) | | ||
Extensibility | |||
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 | | | |
200+ community support plugins | | | |
Officially supported plugins & integrations (ServiceNow, JIRA, ElasticSearch, Splunk, Ansible, Moogsoft, etc) | | | |
Advanced API filtering | | ||
gRPC extensions API (high performance integration API) | | ||
Support & Services | |||
Community Support (Slack & Discourse) | | | |
Commercial Support with SLA | | ||
Professional Services & Training | |