Guides Index

This index links to every guide in the Sensu documentation. Guides describe how to configure Sensu to complete specific observability tasks and workflows to monitor server resources, route alerts and reduce alert fatigue, export metrics, plan maintenance windows, and more, with examples and step-by-step walkthroughs.

• Aggregate metrics with the Sensu StatsD listener
• Augment event data with check hooks
• Collect Prometheus metrics with Sensu
• Collect service metrics with Sensu checks
• Create a read-only user with role-based access control (RBAC)
• Create handler templates
• Create limited service accounts with role-based access control (RBAC)
• Generate certificates for your Sensu installation
• Log Sensu services with systemd
• Monitor business services
• Monitor external resources with proxy entities
• Monitor Sensu with Sensu
• Monitor server resources with checks
• Multi-cluster visibility with federation
• Plan maintenance windows with silencing
• Populate metrics in InfluxDB with handlers
• Reduce alert fatigue with event filters
• Route alerts with event filters
• Run a Sensu cluster
• Scale Sensu Go with Enterprise datastore
• Secure Sensu
• Send email alerts with the Sensu Go Email Handler
• Send PagerDuty alerts with Sensu
• Send Slack alerts with handlers
• Use API keys to authenticate to Sensu
• Use dynamic runtime assets to install plugins
• Use secrets management in Sensu