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  Using a debug handler with Sensu Go
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  A monitoring infrastructure is not much use if you’re not sure if it’s working correctly. In order to ensure its functionality, you may find a need to debug or test specific pieces of this infrastructure. In those cases, a debug handler can be a great tool to have in your Sensu Go toolbox. It can be used for multiple purposes, including:

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/using-a-debug-handler-with-sensu-go
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  Automating monitoring with the Sensu Go Ansible Collection
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  This post by Manca Bizjak of XLAB Steampunk was originally published on the Ansible blog.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/automating-monitoring-with-the-sensu-go-ansible-collection
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  Security and privacy in the public cloud:
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  What companies are missing and why it matters

  As with any enterprise technology, there are benefits and challenges when creating IT environments in the public cloud. The benefits include cost savings and the ability to easily scale up and down (just to name a few). Challenges present a double-edged sword: on the one hand, the scale and reach the cloud provides enables massive scale, but you’re also confronted with regional issues in terms of privacy, such as complying with GDPR, and related challenges when it comes to visibility (you wouldn’t want to accidentally collect private information from the UK and then display it on a dashboard in Texas). Your monitoring tool should surface business-critical information in a way that doesn’t break any laws. More on that later.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/security-and-privacy-in-the-public-cloud
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  Announcing secrets management in Sensu Go
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  In order to determine the health and current state of your systems, monitoring by its very nature requires access to internal and external services. Traditionally, users have had to get creative in terms of how they expose sensitive information (secrets, like access credentials) to their monitoring tool; operators typically would leverage local environment variables or give up entirely by putting secrets in the monitoring configuration. But, by putting secrets into your configuration, you’re giving your visibility tool too much visibility, making the wrong data visible to too many eyes.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/announcing-secrets-management-in-sensu-go
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  Securing Sensu 101
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  Because monitoring requires some degree of access to your applications, it’s important that you take certain steps to ensure the right amount of access without compromising your app’s security. In this first in a series of posts, we’ll go over some high-level best practices to securing Sensu, followed by a webinar later this month which will offer a deeper dive into setting up certificates.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/securing-sensu-101
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  Intro to RBAC in Sensu Go
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  Last month, we ran a webinar on role-based access control (RBAC) in Sensu Go. In this post, we’ll capture some of the key points from the presentation and show you how RBAC can help you lock down access for increased security and team efficiency.

  API keys and what they mean for RBAC

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/intro-to-rbac-in-sensu-go
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  Reducing alert fatigue with GoAlert, Target’s on-call scheduling and notification platform
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  At Sensu Summit 2019, Adam Westman, Sr. Engineering Manager at Target, introduced us to GoAlert, their on-call scheduling and notification open source project. In this post, I’ll recap his talk, sharing the journey that led them to build GoAlert, the problems they’ve solved, and how they use GoAlert with Sensu Go to simplify monitoring and reduce alert fatigue.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/reducing-alert-fatigue-with-goalert
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  Heightened visibility & deeper control with a monitoring control plane
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  This post was originally published in TFIR.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/monitoring-control-plane
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  🎂 Happy birthday, Sensu Go (plus a giveaway)
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  As Caleb recently noted, it’s been a year since the GA release of Sensu Go! In fact, today marks the official one-year mark; since December 5, 2018, Sensu Go has been downloaded over 1 million times — 500,000 installs from Packagecloud and over 500,000 pulls from Docker Hub! To celebrate these milestones, we’re giving away five prizes for Sensu 5.0: four (4) Nintendo Switch™ Lites and one (1) Nintendo Switch™ + a $200 Nintendo eShop Card as a grand prize.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/happy-birthday-sensu-go
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  Monitoring and observability:
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  How the two concepts feed each other to create a holistic approach to visibility

  This article was originally published on DevOps.com.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/monitoring-and-observability
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  How Harvard automates monitoring with Sensu Go
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  Sensu Summit 2019 featured talks from the Sensu Community, including Harvard University SRE Molly Duggan, who shared how Harvard FAS Research Computing Department uses CI/CD pipelines and the Sensu Go API to automate monitoring for their highly complex infrastructure.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/how-harvard-automates-monitoring-with-sensu-go
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  Kubernetes 101
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  The appeal of running workloads in containers is intuitive and there are numerous reasons to do so. Shipping a process with its dependencies in a package that’s able to just run reduces the friction of organizational communication and operation. Relative to virtual machines, the size, simplicity, and reduced overhead of containers make a compelling case.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/kubernetes-101
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  Announcing the Sensu archives
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  We're making temporary EOL repositories available for Sensu Core 1.x & Sensu Enterprise 3.x to help you prepare for the upcoming EOL dates.

  Earlier this year, we reached an important early milestone for the next-generation Sensu Go platform with the General Availability of commercial support for Sensu Go. A few weeks later, we announced that Sensu Core 1.x – the original Sensu open source project – would reach end of life (EOL) on December 31, 2019, and that commercial support for Sensu Enterprise (latest version 3.x) would reach EOL on March 31, 2020. However, we didn't go into too much detail about what this would mean – what changes users can expect, and when. In this post, I’ll address the following questions:

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/announcing-the-sensu-archives
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  One year of Sensu Go!
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  We're making Sensu Go completely free for your first 100 nodes – including all commercial features, like SSO. It's a more scalable, integrated, and secure Sensu for all!

  It's hard to believe it's almost been a whole year since the Sensu Go general availability release on December 5, 2019. As we look forward to celebrating this important milestone, we are also reflecting on how the product has matured over the past year, and sharing some exciting changes that are just on the horizon (for a look at the upcoming roadmap, check out this post by Sensu Creator, Co-founder, and CTO, Sean Porter). But first, I want to address an important upcoming change to how we distribute Sensu.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/one-year-of-sensu-go
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  The Q4'19-Q1'20 Sensu Go product roadmap
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  Looking back at one year of Sensu Go and looking ahead at version 6.0!

  Sensu Go has come a long way since its GA release in December 2019; in a little over 10 months, we've seen 14 minor version releases (5.1–5.14), including dozens of new features and product enhancements, and hundreds of bug fixes (see the changelog for more information). Here’s a high-level timeline of what we’ve accomplished:

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/sensu-go-product-roadmap-q1-2020
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  Visualizing Sensu Go data in Grafana
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  This is a guest post from Marius Oehler of Novatec Consulting GmbH, an independent IT consultancy based in Germany. Marius is an expert on open-source observability and with his team supporting customers in the field of application performance management and monitoring for more than 15 years.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/visualizing-sensu-go-data-in-grafana
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  Scaling Sensu Go
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  Or, why we spent $10K on gaming hardware to improve our product

  This time last year, Sensu Go hadn’t been released in General Availability (GA) yet. Now, 10 months later, version 5.14 is in production environments, monitoring infrastructure, applications, and connected devices across public and private clouds. It’s been quite a journey to get to a product that’s both a massive improvement over the original Sensu 1.x and helps customers achieve enterprise-level scale.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/scaling-sensu-go
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  Challenges of big infrastructure monitoring
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  The following is adapted from an article Sean wrote for DevOps.com.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/challenges-of-big-infrastructure-monitoring
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  Back to school at Sensu Summit 2019
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  The community came together on September 9-10, 2019 for Sensu Summit for two excellent days of talks, workshops, and a touch of high school nostalgia (Revolution Hall used to be a school, after all) — starting with nerd-approved Pee Chee folders and customized number 2 pencils, and an actual high school drumline closing out the event.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/back-to-school-at-sensu-summit-2019
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  Using Ansible for configuration management
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  The following is a guest post from Eric Goebelbecker. Eric has worked in the financial markets in New York City for 25 years, developing infrastructure for market data and financial information exchange (FIX) protocol networks. He loves to talk about what makes teams effective (or not so effective!)

  Ansible is a powerful configuration management tool for deploying software and administering remote systems that you can integrate into any existing architecture. It relies on industry-standard security mechanisms and takes full advantage of existing operating system utilities.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/using-ansible-for-configuration-management