MetricsHub vs Sensu Go
MetricsHub
metricshub.com
Sensu Go
sensu.ioSide by side
| Figure | MetricsHub | Sensu Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $15/mo | $3/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 3 |
| Spec score · Infrastructure Monitoring | 9.1 (#2) | 8.1 (#14) |
| Integrations | Documented integrations include Prometheus, Datadog, BMC Helix, Alertmanager, Grafana dashboards and MCP-based AI agents. | Sensu names Elasticsearch, Splunk, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Ansible Tower, Prometheus, and Nagios among its integrations and compatible tools. |
| Scale | One MetricsHub instance can remotely monitor up to 1,000 hosts. | Sensu says a single cluster can monitor tens of thousands of nodes and federation provides visibility across globally distributed infrastructure. |
| Security | MetricsHub documents encrypted password storage using a local keystore file. | Sensu lists LDAP, Active Directory, and OIDC SSO, mTLS certificate authentication, external PKI verification, and CRL support. |
Plans
In their own words
MetricsHub
MetricsHub is an OpenTelemetry-based metrics collector for monitoring infrastructure and exporting metrics to observability platforms. One instance can remotely monitor up to 1,000 hosts. Its connectors cover servers, storage systems, network devices, databases, and enterprise applications, collecting data through methods including HTTP, IPMI, JMX, SNMP, SSH, WBEM, WinRM, and WMI. Users can extend monitoring with declarative YAML configuration without custom code. MetricsHub also monitors power consumption, carbon intensity, and electricity costs. A web interface supports configuration, resource and metric visualization, analysis, and troubleshooting. Named integrations include BMC Helix, Datadog, Grafana, ServiceNow, New Relic, Prometheus, and Splunk. It is self-hosted and supports Linux and Windows monitoring. The free Community Edition is positioned for small-scale or individual projects. Enterprise is described for mission-critical environments and costs $15 a month, billed per host, with a 30-day trial.
Sensu Go
Sensu Go is a commercial monitoring and observability solution for enterprise DevOps and SRE teams overseeing infrastructure from Kubernetes to bare metal. It collects, filters, and transforms monitoring events before sending them to a database chosen by the customer. Teams can manage declarative monitoring configuration, check system and service health, collect metrics and logs, and run custom scripts including Nagios-style plugins. Agents discover virtual machines, public cloud compute instances, containers, and services. Sensu can alert by email, Slack, or SMS, create or resolve incidents in PagerDuty, ServiceNow, and JIRA, and deduplicate alerts. It also supports remediation actions such as restarting services or running scripts. Sensu Go is self-hosted and free for up to 100 nodes at one site. Pro costs $36 per year, billed annually, with a 100-node minimum; this equals $3.00 per node/month when billed annually. The free 14-day trial is for evaluating beyond 100 nodes. The backend is unsupported on Windows and macOS.