Sensu Go Workshop - Introduction to Checks - Lesson 8

Dive into the eighth lesson of the Sensu Go Workshop, focusing on checks - a crucial component of monitoring and observability. Learn how to create, configure, and schedule checks, and use subscriptions to target specific hosts. Explore check templates and tokens for dynamic configuration, and discover how to collect and process metrics using checks. Engage in hands-on exercises to configure checks, modify them using tokens, and implement tagging and metrics processing. This 20-minute video provides practical insights for operators looking to enhance their monitoring capabilities with Sensu Go, preparing you for advanced topics like check hooks in future lessons.

- INTRO
- WHAT ARE CHECKS?
- SUBSCRIPTIONS AND CHECK SCHEDULING
- EXERCISE 1: CONFIGURE A CHECK
- CHECK TEMPLATES
- EXERCISE 2: MODIFY A CHECK USING TOKENS
- METRICS COLLECTION AND PROCESSING
- OUTPUT METRIC TAGS
- EXERCISE 3: TAGGING AND PROCESSING METRICS USING CHECKS
- DISCUSSION TIME
- WHAT'S NEXT