Sensu Summit - The Future of Sensu

The Sensu 2017 Summit keynote.

Transcript

1. The Future Of Sensu
   Sean Porter - CTO
   @PorterTech
   

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2. Welcome
   

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3. 27,368 commits
   1349 contributors
   > 500k monthly downloads
   

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4. Why Do We Care About Monitoring?
   ● We deliver value with software
   ● Software availability is critical - downtime is expensive!
   ● We must have visibility into our systems
   

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5. Monitoring is a core competency.
   

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6. The Origin Story
   

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7. The Origin Story
   I joined Sonian in 2010 as an “Automation Engineer”
   ● Early adopters
   ● High rate of change
   ○ Growing team
   ○ Evolving software stack
   

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8. I experienced a HUGE
   paradigm shift in infrastructure
   delivery.
   

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10. We designed our software for the
    cloud.
    

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11. We designed our software for the
    cloud.
    We did NOT design our monitoring
    tools...
    

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12. The Tools We Knew
    

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15. Too much monitoring.
    

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16. Limitations of the technology.
    

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17. Use vs build vs buy?
    

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19. The Origin Story
    I started a side project (July 2011)
    ● An agent based monitoring system with auto-discovery
    ○ Leverage existing and familiar technologies, protocols, etc.
    ○ Easy to drive with configuration management
    ○ Easy to scale
    ○ APIs
    

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20. The Origin Story
    ● Named it Sensu
    ● Sonian sponsored development!
    ○ Deployed to production after 2 months of development
    ● Sensu evolved into a “monitoring framework”
    ○ Composable event processing pipeline
    

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21. Sensu was designed for
    the cloud*
    

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22. Sensu was created in
    response to a paradigm shift
    in infrastructure delivery.
    

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23. Open Source
    

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24. November 1st, 2011.
    

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26. Sensu has grown more
    powerful.
    

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27. Heavy Water
    I joined Heavy Water in 2013 as a partner
    ● We launched sensuapp.org
    ● We helped all kinds of organizations use Sensu
    ○ Gained insight into monitoring challenges
    ● We created Sensu Enterprise! (April 2015)
    

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28. Sensu Inc.
    

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29. Sensu’s mission: Obviate the
    need to (re)build custom
    monitoring solutions.
    

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30. Together we are creating
    a better Sensu.
    

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31. We Shipped Sensu 1.0!
    

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32. Sensu 1.0
    ● Mature monitoring primitives
    ○ A focus on composability and extensibility
    ● Built for any scale
    ○ Leveraging well tested and common technologies
    ○ Architected for dynamic environments
    

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33. Sensu 1.0
    ● Monitors a broad portion of the technology spectrum
    ○ Bare metal to containers
    ● Designed for DevOps workflows
    ○ Automation (e.g. Puppet)
    ○ Version control
    

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34. Sensu 1.x Roadmap
    ● Scheduled maintenance
    ● Check hooks!
    ● Official Docker images
    

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35. Next Steps?
    

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36. Make it easier.
    

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37. Sources Of Friction
    ● RabbitMQ and Erlang
    ● HA Redis
    ● Reliance on configuration management
    ● Limited multi-tenancy capabilities
    ● Footprint
    

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38. Prepare for the future.
    

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39. We are experiencing another
    paradigm shift in infrastructure
    delivery.
    

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40. The container paradigm.
    

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41. Sensu 2.0
    

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42. Sensu 2.0
    ● Same core principles
    ● Same primitives
    ● Will support everything Sensu does now
    

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43. Sensu 2.0 is easier.
    

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46. Sensu 2.0
    ● Better APIs
    ● Entities
    ○ Host, VM, container, function, etc.
    ● Metrics are first class!!!
    

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47. Sensu 2.0 is designed for
    containers the future.
    

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48. Greg Poirier - VP of Engineering
    Sensu 2.0 Technical Deep Dive @ 4:40
    

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50. You can be an alpha tester.
    

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51. Thank You
    Sean Porter - CTO
    @PorterTech
    

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