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  Moving (and moving on up) to Sensu Go at Iforium
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  The following is a guest post from Michael Eaton, Senior DevOps Engineer at Iforium, an eGaming software development company.
  
  I work at Iforium, an eGaming company based on the Isle of Man, where — for the past three years — we’d been using Sensu Core to monitor our infrastructure.
  Earlier this year we began our migration to Sensu Go. In this post, I’ll share a bit about our journey, offering some background on Iforium and our technical stack, our monitoring pain points, and our take on Sensu Go so far.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/moving-and-moving-on-up-to-sensu-go-at-iforium
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  3 ways secrets management improves monitoring & observability
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  Secrets management for Sensu Go, and the HashiCorp Vault Integration

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/3-ways-secrets-management-improves-monitoring-observability
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  Integrate your IDS + monitoring with the Sensu Tripwire asset
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  Tripwire, created by our friend Gene Kim, is a popular intrusion detection system (IDS) with both commercial and open source offerings. As a fun side project, I put together a Tripwire asset for Sensu. While this is more a prototype than anything else, I wanted to take this opportunity to offer some background on IDS, Tripwire, and integrating intrusion detection into your monitoring workflow, with the overall aim of illustrating how easy it is to deploy solutions with Sensu.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/integrate-your-ids-monitoring-with-the-sensu-tripwire-asset
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  The evolving application lifecycle: from DevOps to DevSecOps
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  Every evolution in technology starts with the people behind it. So understanding the context, roles, and objectives that gave rise to DevOps — and now DevSecOps — isn’t just an exploration of timing and technology; it’s central to how we define organizational success.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/the-evolving-application-lifecycle-from-devops-to-devsecops
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  How to manage data in hybrid cloud environments
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  This article was originally published on DevOps.com.

  We’ve long-since established that multi-generational, multi-cloud environments are the new norm. But how does one go about managing data in those environments? In this post, we’ll take a look at the ramifications of this hybrid cloud reality and best practices for managing your data for increased scalability and heightened availability.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/how-to-manage-data-in-hybrid-cloud-environments
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  How to scale your monitoring with Sensu clustering
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  I recently led a webinar for the Sensu community on how to scale your monitoring by setting up a three-node cluster in Sensu Go using Sensu’s embedded etcd. Clustering improves Sensu’s availability, allows for node failure, and distributes network load.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/how-to-scale-your-monitoring-with-sensu-clustering
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  How to publish an asset with the Sensu Go SDK
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  We recently introduced the sensu-plugins-sdk and the new template plugin projects. In this post — based on our recent webinar — I’m going to dive deeper into those community resources and illustrate how to publish an asset using the Sensu Go SDK. I’ll also cover how to package compiled binary plugins (including dynamically linked libraries) as assets. 

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/how-to-publish-an-asset-with-the-sensu-go-sdk
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  How to work from home: 9 tips from the folks at Sensu
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  Our advice for working from home in normal (and abnormal) times

  Even before a global pandemic caused many of us — willingly or not — to suddenly start working from home, it had long been on my list to compile a “work from home” guide, crowdsourcing the advice from the folks here at Sensu. As a remote-first company, we have our fair share of pro tips for working from home; we also want to acknowledge that these times are anything but normal. As wise people on Twitter have said, we’re not just working from home — we’re at home, during a crisis, trying to work. With that in mind, these tips aren’t meant to add to the coronavirus-inspired productivity pressure but rather serve as work from home (WFH) resources for now and the return of normal times.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/how-to-work-from-home-9-tips-from-the-folks-at-sensu
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  Keep your configs in good order with sensuctl prune 🌿
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  We’re excited to share our first-ever alpha feature: sensuctl prune, which will help you easily (and safely!) remove resources you no longer need.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/keep-your-configs-in-good-order-with-sensuctl-prune
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  Migrating to Kubernetes
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  The reasons to move to Kubernetes are many and compelling. This post doesn’t make the case that you should migrate, but assumes you have already decided that you want to. When you’re clear on what you want to do and why you want to do it, the questions of “When?” and “How?” become your focus. What follows centers on the question of how to approach making Kubernetes the platform on which your workloads thrive.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/migrating-to-kubernetes
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  How to simplify SNMP implementation
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  The following is a guest post from Jean Tunis, the principal consultant and founder of RootPerformance.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/how-to-simplify-snmp-implementation
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  TLS monitoring
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  The following is a guest post from Sensu Community Maintainer Eric Heydrick.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/tls-monitoring
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  Monitoring event pipelines: Why you need one, and why you should stop rolling your own
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  Over the last 10 years, the landscape that we manage, maintain, and control as operators and developers has changed dramatically. We’ve shifted from monolith to microservices, from bare metal to VMs to containers to function-based computing — and it’s changed how we need to approach monitoring and observability. 

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/monitoring-event-pipelines-why-you-need-one-and-why-you-should-stop-rolling-your-own
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  Monitoring multi-cloud environments
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  Migrating to the cloud comes with plenty of challenges, especially when it comes to maintaining visibility and avoiding downtime.

  The following post is adapted from Sean’s article in ITProPortal.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/monitoring-multi-cloud-environments
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  Looking back at one year of Sensu assets & announcing a new Sensu plugins SDK
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  Assets were one of the biggest additions in Sensu Go. How have new and experienced Sensu users reacted to Sensu assets as a workflow? And what's on the roadmap for Sensu contributors?

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/looking-back-at-one-year-of-sensu-assets
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  Software development best practices checklist: 5 tips for beginners
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  This is a guest post from Ava Franklin of GoodCore Software.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/software-development-best-practices-checklist-5-tips-for-beginners
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  Announcing the 2020 Sensu Community Summits – US West & US East
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  We’re rebranding Sensu Summit to be more focused on our amazing community. The next Sensu Community Summit will be hosted on May 19, 2020 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

  Registration is now open — space is limited to 75 people and tickets are only $99, so get yours before it's too late! And, if you have a Sensu story to share, submit your idea by March 13, 2020. Bonus: if your talk is accepted, we’ll cover your ticket and hotel!

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/announcing-the-2020-sensu-community-summits-us-west-us-east
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  Best DevOps tools (according to the folks building Sensu)
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  Because Sensu is a tool made for (and by!) operators, I wanted to share our own favorite tools in the DevOps ecosystem (aside from Sensu, of course!). I surveyed the fine folks who work at Sensu on what their favorite DevOps tools are, and why. And while we don’t always agree on a specific tool (everyone has their own favorite text editor), it’s safe to say that open source is a constant theme. Read on to learn about our tools of choice for editors, programming, storage, IaC, and more.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/best-devops-tools-2020
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  Chaos engineering + monitoring, part 2: for starters
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  Oh man, did I get ahead of myself in my last post! I started chatting tools, and I realize now that I really should have been talking more about why I’m using Sensu and Gremlin. But it didn’t occur to me until last year at Monitorama.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/chaos-engineering-monitoring-part-2-for-starters
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  Announcing v4 of the Sensu Puppet module
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  The following is a guest post from Trey Dockendorf of Tailored Automation. He is a maintainer and the top contributor to the Sensu Puppet module. Trey has been developing Puppet modules for 10 years and specializes in system administration for high-performance computing.

  
  
  https://blog.sensu.io/announcing-v4-of-the-sensu-puppet-module