---
title: Intro to Sensu - A monitoring and alerting framework
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2018/program/proposals/440
beginning: '2018-11-09T10:45:00.000-08:00'
end: '2018-11-09T11:35:00.000-08:00'
presenters:
- name: Garrett Honeycutt
  affiliation: Tailored Automation
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/67
  gravatar_id: 965eaf24096906071b12c72d1c0d8a32
  biography: |-
    Garrett Honeycutt, Principal at Tailored Automation, has been working with open source software and spreading its merits for over twenty years. He is passionate about automating systems and teaching others. Regularly sharing his experiences, he has had the opportunity to speak at conferences across the globe and now organizes DevOpsDays Indianapolis.

    [https://tailoredautomation.io/](https://tailoredautomation.io/)
---

Sensu is an open source monitoring solution built for today's environments. Sensu allows you to get complete visibility of your infrastructure and software. Besides monitoring, it also does alerts and metrics routing and ties into tools you might already use. You will leave understanding how Sensu works and how to quickly get started using it.
