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Multi-cloud monitoring solution

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Sensu - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Sensu overview

What is Sensu?

Sensu is the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline empowers businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain deep visibility into their multi-cloud environments. Founded in 2017, Sensu offers a comprehensive monitoring solution for enterprises, providing complete visibility across every system, every protocol, every time from Kubernetes to bare metal.

Sensu provides users with a single and central platform from which to manage availability and application performance monitoring. Sensu offers a free and open source Sensu Core framework, as well as the commercially supported Sensu Enterprise. The Sensu Enterprise solution includes features like service checks and metrics, Prometheus and Nagios compatibility, alerts and incident management, plus Active Directory and enterprise-grade integrations (ServiceNow, Jira, Splunk). Sensu helps users maintain complete visibility over their entire infrastructure for both public and private cloud. Users can collect container and application metrics and store them anywhere (ElasticSearch, Splunk, etc.).

Key benefits of using Sensu

• Monitor everything from containers and cloud compute instances to bare metal and even mainframes.

• Manage availability and application performance monitoring from a single and central platform.

• Users can integrate with their existing tools like ElasticDB, Grafana, InfluxDB, helping to streamline the user-workflow.

• Automated alerts through email, PagerDuty and Slack enable users to create and resolve incidents as and when they happen.

• Collect and store container and application metrics anytime, anywhere via ElasticSearch, Splunk and InfluxDB.

Starting price

600per feature /
per month

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Sensu’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Sensu reviews

Overall rating

4.8

/5

13

Positive reviews

100

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9.31/10
Rating distribution

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Pros
“Sensu has a really great community where I have had the benefit of leveraging many community contributions but been able to give back to such an awesome community.”
BA

Ben A.

Supreme Unicorn Hunter of Planet Earth and the Entire Galaxy Beside

“The overall experience with this software is really good and I recommend everyone to use it.”
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Sayanta B.

Research Engineer

“I haven't dug very deep into the myriad customization available because I didn't need to. As a monitoring solution it pretty much serves perfectly.”
SC

Soham C.

Systems Administrator

Cons
“Do you know how hard it was to try and link sensu/chef/slack using the community plugins. There was no mentions of a sensu_snippet any where in the docs.”
OM

Oscar M.

Lead devops engineer

“Most people do not manually instal sensu, they use config management, yet the documentations on how to get up and running using ansible or chef is very weak.”
OM

Oscar M.

Lead devops engineer

“Can't set a different retry interval once a problem is detected, like you can in nagios.”

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Who uses Sensu?

Based on 13 verified user reviews.

Company size

Enterprises

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Computer Software
Information Technology and Services
Financial Services
Internet
Others

Use cases

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Sensu's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Sensu users:

Compliance management
Performance metrics
Uptime reporting
Capacity management
Server monitoring
Network analysis

All Sensu features

Features rating:

Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Availability testing
Bandwidth monitoring
CPU monitoring
Customizable dashboard
Dashboard
Diagnostic tools
Email monitoring
Event logs
FTP Monitoring
Incident management
Issue auditing
Mail Server Monitoring
Maintenance scheduling
Monitoring
Multitenancy
Network monitoring
Network resource management
Performance monitoring
Real-Time data
Resource management
Service level agreement (sla) management
Third-Party integrations
Virtual machine monitoring

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Value for money rating:

Starting from

600

Per month

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Free trial
Free plan
Pricing range

User opinions about Sensu price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Sensu's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Sensu has a really great community where I have had the benefit of leveraging many community contributions but been able to give back to such an awesome community.”
BA

Ben A.

Supreme Unicorn Hunter of Planet Earth and the Entire Galaxy Beside

“The overall experience with this software is really good and I recommend everyone to use it.”
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Sayanta B.

Research Engineer

Sensu support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
Chat
Phone Support
24/7 (Live rep)
FAQs/Forum

Training options

Webinars
Live Online
In Person
Documentation

Sensu FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Sensu offer?

Sensu has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $600.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available

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Q. Who are the typical users of Sensu?

Sensu has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Sensu support?

Sensu supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Sensu offer an API?

Yes, Sensu has an API available for use.


Q. What other apps does Sensu integrate with?

Sensu integrates with the following applications:
Jira, Slack, PagerDuty, JIRA Service Management, ServiceNow


Q. What level of support does Sensu offer?

Sensu offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Chat, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), FAQs/Forum

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