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try to piece together the monitoring operations into a single spot where a company can keep an eye on the health of their operations
The company said it has raised $10 million in a new financing round led by Battery Ventures, with existing investor Foundry Group
of monitoring the health of a system, Sensu tries to get all this into one place to make things a little easier than checking things
directly into services like Slack or sending emails to flag potential issues before they end up becoming larger problems
Like others like Cloudera, Sensu builds its business around helping companies deploy this otherwise open source technology
and more companies moved to a hybrid cloud model that existed partially in some box somewhere on Azure or AWS
Starting off as an open source project is one way that he hopes to convince larger enterprises that might already be using similar tools to
adopt a known entity rather than just giving some random startup the keys to maintaining their operations.The monitoring space is still a
There are tools like AppDynamics or New Relic, but Hailey argues that Sensu can be competitive with those as they are very bundled while his
startup helps companies piece together a more complete solution
For example, a company might need higher granularity in their reports, and Sensu aims to try to provide a robust toolkit for companies that
have many disparate operations they need to keep online and running smoothly.
