Top Stories published by The Sensu blog in 2016

Deprecating Event Filtering in sensu-plugin

If you are like many Sensu users, you’ve come to rely on event handlers from the Sensu Plugins project for sending notifications to on-call personnel. These handler plugins automatically apply filtering to reduce alert fatigue and improve the overall…


Five Years of Sensu

Although Sensu wouldn’t become a publicly available open-source project until November 2011, the Sensu journey officially began five years ago this week. Five years ago I committed an empty README.md file (commit #1) to an otherwise empty repository called “Sensu” where I would then describe…


Migrating to Sensu native silencing

Back in September we released Sensu Core version 0.26, adding silencing of clients and checks as a native construct in Sensu. In this post we aim to illuminate the specifics of this new approach to silencing and the possibilities it unlocks.


Sensu Joins the Chef Partner Cookbook Program!

We are very proud to announce that Sensu is now a part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. The Chef Partner Cookbook Program launched in February 2016 to establish “a new standard in code quality” and expand its “DevOps-ready technology…