sensu/sensu-go

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Sensu Go is an open-source, agent-based monitoring and observability pipeline for ephemeral infrastructure and distributed applications, rewritten in Go with an embedded etcd datastore. It collects service health checks and telemetry via a publish-subscribe model, routes events through filters and handlers, and integrates with tools like Prometheus, Splunk, PagerDuty, and Elasticsearch.

Use cases

• monitor server health across multi-cloud infrastructure
• alert on service failures in distributed systems
• collect metrics from ephemeral cloud instances
• monitor kubernetes clusters
• automate incident notifications with pagerduty or slack
• replace nagios with a scalable monitoring system
• monitoring as code with infrastructure automation

When to choose

• you need scalable monitoring for dynamic, ephemeral cloud or Kubernetes environments
• you want monitoring-as-code workflows with self-service APIs
• you need to consolidate multiple monitoring tools into one observability pipeline
• you want an agent-based system with auto-discovery and extensible plugins

When to avoid

• you only need simple single-host uptime checks
• you want a fully free solution beyond 100 nodes without commercial licensing
• you need a turnkey UI out of the box - the web UI is a separate standalone product
• you prefer lightweight push-based metrics without an agent footprint

Facets

application · maturity active

monitoring alerting tracing api-framework cli monitoring cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code microservices windows go cloud self-hosted observability-pipeline agent-based-monitoring monitoring-as-code pub-sub etcd multi-cloud sre service-checks devops linux macos docker kubernetes

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