Sensu Enterprise
With the latest update to Sensu (0.16), there has been the added feature of installing/purchasing Sensu Enterprise. Sensu Enterprise hosts a slew of features not provided in the free version (Sensu Core), and some of these features kind of frustrate me that they need to be purchased. One such example is contact routing. This feature, provided only in Sensu Enterprise, allows you to create contact group and detail information of the medium to contact that individual or group and then add that contact to a check. I think of this feature as being a basic necessity when it comes to system monitoring rather than an Enterprise feature. I do think some of the features provided in Enterprise are reasonable though, such as: support for alternate transport brokers, "out of the box" support for third-party integrations, and the support features that are expected in enterprise level software packages (deployment assistance, premium support, etc.). The fact that contact routing is not supported in the Core software, in my personal opinion, just seems like bad business. If contact routing was supported in core it would give a more complete open source system monitoring solution, and give it another positive mark for those considering to migrate from another monitoring software such as Nagios.
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