The Future of Sensu

Unveiling the next-gen Sensu at Monitorama 2017.

1. The Future of Sensu Sean Porter - CTO for Sensu Inc.
2. The Present • Mature monitoring primitives ◦ Focus on composability and extensibility • Built for any scale ◦ Leveraging well tested and common technologies ◦ Architected for dynamic environments
3. The Present • Monitors a broad portion of the technology spectrum ◦ Bare metal to containers • Designed for DevOps workflows ◦ Automation (e.g. Puppet) ◦ Version control
4. Our mission: Obviate the need to (re)build custom monitoring solutions.
6. “You can only know where you’re going if you know where you’ve been.”
7. Sources of Friction • RabbitMQ and Erlang • HA Redis • Reliance on configuration management • Lack of multi-tenancy
10. We are building...
11. Sensu 2.0 • No external transport • No external data store • Does not rely on configuration management • Multi-tenancy and RBAC from the ground up
13. Sensu 2.0 • Written in Go • Implements the Sensu PubSub model (push + pull) • ALL configuration is done via the API • Check runtime asset management
14. Sensu 2.0 • Entities (instead of “clients”) ◦ Can represent anything (e.g. agent, router, function, etc.) • RBAC Organizations and Environments
16. DEMO
17. Thank You.