Getting Started with Sensu in 5 minutes, really 5 minutes
I recently wanted to do an evaluation of Sensu as a potential component of a bigger solution. So I went searching for a quick getting started that allows me to get a test bed up and running quickly with little to no resistance.
“Five minutes to get started”, how hard could that be, sold! I am in. Thirty minutes after I found myself cloning Sensu’s github repo, the existing stack did not give me a Sensu client. How usseful a monitoring system without a client to monitor ?
So, like any good student of infrastructure-as-code, I created a Docker compose stack to have anyone with Docker installed up and running in 5 minutes (depending on your internet pipes :-))
To get started copy and paste the following commands to your terminal:
This will bring up a minimal stack of the following components:
- sensu-server
- redis
- rabbitmq
- uchiwa dashboard
- sensu-client
The related girhub repo can be found at https://github.com/tzoght/sandbox-docker/tree/master/compose
