Learning DevOps: Continuously Deliver Better Software

Finding community checks

Once the Sensu client and server are installed, it's now time to add the checks to be monitored for any issue. By default, the Sensu client reports nothing; it is up to you to add any relevant checks to make it useful.

Sensu checks can be written in any language as long as it returns the correct response to the server via RabbitMQ; however, they are generally written either in Bash or more commonly in Ruby. Luckily, the Sensu community has contributed a great many open source checks to the project. These can be installed, thus saving you from having to create your own and they cover many of the common check scenarios.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need an Ubuntu 14.04 host to act as the Sensu check host and a Sensu ...