Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Sensu

Sensu

Monitor servers, services, application health, and business KPIs. Get notified about failures before your users do. Collect and analyze custom metrics. Give your business the competitive advantage it deserves.

The top open-source alternatives to Sensu are Datadog, Prometheus, and Nagios. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Datadog Landing Page
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Datadog

See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog's cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $15.0 / Monthly (per host)
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Error Tracking 5 social mentions
Prometheus Landing Page
2

Prometheus

An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 225 social mentions
Nagios Landing Page
3

Nagios

Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management
Zabbix Landing Page
4

Zabbix

Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions
Grafana Landing Page
5

Grafana

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions
Sysdig Landing Page
6

Sysdig

Sysdig is an open source, system-level exploration that capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security #Monitoring Tools #Developer Tools 2 social mentions
Checkmk Landing Page
7

Checkmk

Checkmk - the software for effective IT monitoring
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- €600.0 / Annually
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Incident Management 53 social mentions
Scout Landing Page
8

Scout

Scout ♥ monoliths.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 3 social mentions
logit.io Landing Page
9

logit.io

Logit.io provides complete observability of logs, metrics and traces. The platform also offers alerting & monitoring, as well as Prometheus, OpenSearch & Grafana. Ingest any type of data to see real-time insights about your applications and services
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $0.74 (per GB per day)
#Log Management #Monitoring Tools #Machine Data Analytics
Icinga Landing Page
10

Icinga

Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 8 social mentions
Shinken Landing Page
11

Shinken

Nagios compatible monitoring framework, written in Python
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Website Monitoring #Network & Admin
Cacti Landing Page
12

Cacti

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution. It provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management