Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Icinga vs Sensu: What are the differences?
What is Icinga? A resilient, open source monitoring system. It monitors availability and performance, gives you simple access to relevant data and raises alerts to keep you in the loop. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application.
What is Sensu? Open source monitoring framework. A monitoring framework that aims to be simple, malleable, and scalable. Essentially, Sensu takes the results of “check” scripts run across many systems, and if certain conditions are met; passes their information to one or more “handlers”. Checks are used, for example, to determine if a service like Apache is up or down.
Icinga and Sensu can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
Sensu is an open source tool with 2.96K GitHub stars and 389 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sensu's open source repository on GitHub.
- free open source
- modern interface and architecture
- large community
- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
Pros of Icinga
Pros of Sensu
- Support for almost anything13
- Easy setup11
- Message routing9
- Devs can code their own checks7
- Ease of use5
- Price4
- Nagios plugin compatibility3
- Easy configuration, scales well and performance is good3
- Written in Go1
Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions
Cons of Icinga
Cons of Sensu
- Plugins1
- Written in Go1
Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions
What is Icinga?
What is Sensu?
Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
What companies use Icinga?
Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions
What tools integrate with Sensu?
Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions
Blog Posts
+10