Sensu | [Live Workshop] Practical Monitoring as Code with Sensu Go

Sensu Go Workshop

The Sensu Go Workshop is an instructor-led training series designed to empower developers, SREs, and DevOps teams begin their monitoring as code journeys. Why do I need an Observability Pipeline? What is Monitoring as Code? All these questions and more are answered in the workshop.

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Sensu Workshop Benefits

The Sensu Go Workshop is an interactive instructor-led training series hosted by the Developer Advocacy team at Sensu. The complete Sensu Go Workshop curriculum consists of 16 lessons covering a wide range of topics designed to help new and experienced Sensu users.

Workshop trainees will learn how to:

Take control of your monitoring and observability data with the Sensu Go observability pipeline
Schedule monitoring jobs across elastic multi-cloud infrastrucutre to execute custom scripts, including Nagios-style plugins
Collect custom application metrics and integrate observability data with external data platforms for unified business intelligence
Send alerts via Slack, Microsoft Teams, Pagerduty, ServiceNow, and more
Fine tune observability data processing workflows and eliminate alert fatigue using Sensu Go filters
Automate multi-cloud endpoint management – discovering new VMs, public cloud compute instances, containers, and more in real-time
Automate remediation (self-healing) with Sensu Go

“Monitoring as code solves a bane for many projects whereby unexpected issues during pre-production testing or deployments go undetected. We lose hours allowing failing tests to continue, then more time troubleshooting the problem, and of course, we miss the opportunity to investigate root cause at the point of failure. With monitoring deployed alongside the application via a single, unified pipeline, we catch any issues early and avoid having to manually babysit the testing and CI/CD process.”

— Seng Phung-Lu, AVP Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Tools Engineering, and Cloud Monitoring at TD Bank

Watch: Monitoring as code, explained.

Workshop Curriculum

The Sensu Go Workshop is broken up into a total of 16 lessons. Lessons 1-2 are non-interactive presentations introducing the observability pipeline and monitoring as code. Lessons 3-16 are interactive training modules with a variety of hands-on exercises designed to help Sensu users be successful with monitoring as code and Sensu Go.

Lesson Overview

Introduction to Monitoring as Code
Introduction to the Observability Data Model
Introduction to Sensu Go
Introduction to Handlers & Handler Sets
Introduction to Events
Introduction to Filters
Introduction to Agents & Entities
Introduction to Checks
Introduction to Check Hooks
Introduction to Assets

Introduction to Silencing & Scheduled Maintenance
Introduction to Mutators
Introduction to Proxy Entities & Proxy Checks
Introduction to Namespaces & RBAC
Introduction to Secrets Management
Advanced Topics

Instructors

The Sensu Go Workshop series is presented by the Sensu Developer Advocacy team, including:

Caleb Hailey, Senior Director, Product Development

Caleb Hailey is the Senior Director, Product Development at Sumo Logic and formerly Co-founder, CEO of Sensu Inc. Before founding Sensu, Caleb was President at Heavy Water Operations as well as Director of Product Development at Novitas Data, where he rebuilt their software development division, shortened development cycles from years to weeks, and cemented deals with several Fortune 500 companies. An Oregon native, Caleb loves contributing to open source projects, wine tasting, and cheering the Portland Timbers to victory.

Jef Spaleta, Principal Product Manager

Jef Spaleta is the Principal Product Manager at Sumo Logic, where he works with the Sensu Community to create compelling solutions and stories. His work with Sensu as a user and developer enables him to gain valuable insight that helps inform Sensu product messaging and engineering priorities. Residing in Fairbanks, Alaska, Jef’s interests range from technology to coffee, curling, and singing.

About Sensu

Sensu is a real-time infrastructure & application monitoring platform designed for large scale applications and infrastructure. Sensu combines event data + infrastructure and custom application metrics with powerful monitoring-as-code workflows to deliver a complete end-to-end solution for multi-cloud observability.

Consolidating tools and eliminating observability data silos is easy with built-in support for thousands of plugins & exporters, and a programmable observability pipeline.