Nikki Attea is a software engineer at Sensu Inc. who gave a presentation on testing, monitoring, and the Sensu monitoring event pipeline. The presentation covered how Sensu works to collect events from clients and filters, transforms, and routes them to handlers. It also discussed using Sensu to collect metrics and send them to time-series databases like InfluxDB for storage and visualization in Grafana.
3. How does
work?
Sensu is the original monitoring event pipeline.
Events
Sensu Event Pipeline
Filter Transform Handler
nikki.dev @nikkixdev
How does
work?
Sensu is the original monitoring event pipeline.
Events
Sensu Event Pipeline
Filter Transform Handler
nikki.dev @nikkixdev
13. #1: Eliminate bias by adding
instruction.
#2: Define acceptance criteria.
#3: Automate, but don’t
over-automate.
#4: Implement test case
management.
#5: Hire employees with
diverse experience.
nikki.dev @nikkixdev
#1: Eliminate bias by adding
instruction.
#2: Define acceptance criteria.
#3: Automate, but don’t
over-automate.
#4: Implement test case
management.
#5: Hire employees with
diverse experience.
nikki.dev @nikkixdev
47. The monitoring event pipeline
The Sensu Go agent is a powerful cross-platform event producer.
Sensu Event Pipeline
Filter HandlerTransform
Sensu Client
Events
Agent
(event
producer)
Nagios Plugin
(service check)
StatsD Metrics
(instrumentation
library)
Prometheus
(/metrics endpoint)
The monitoring event pipeline
The Sensu Go agent is a powerful cross-platform event producer.
Sensu Event Pipeline
Filter HandlerTransform
Sensu Client
Events
Agent
(event
producer)
Nagios Plugin
(service check)
StatsD Metrics
(instrumentation
library)
Prometheus
(/metrics endpoint)