Sensu is an open-source monitoring framework that helps in monitoring and alerting various parts of your infrastructure. In this tutorial, we'll go through the step-by-step process of installing Sensu on Kali Linux.
Prerequisites:
The first step is to add the Sensu repository to the list of repositories on our system. We'll do this by creating a new file in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory with the Sensu repository URL.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory:sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sensu.list
deb https://packagecloud.io/sensu/stable/debian/ buster main
Press Ctrl + O to save the changes and Ctrl + X to exit Nano.
Run the following command to add the Sensu repository key:
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Now that we have added the Sensu repository to our system, we can use apt-get to install Sensu.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sensu
The Sensu installation process will create a default configuration located at /etc/sensu/.
cd /etc/sensu/
config.json.example file to config.json:sudo mv config.json.example config.json
sudo systemctl enable sensu.service
sudo systemctl start sensu.service
To verify that the installation was successful, we can check the version of Sensu:
sensu-client --version
This will output the version of Sensu installed.
Congratulations! You have installed Sensu on Kali Linux. Now you can start configuring Sensu to monitor and alert on various parts of your infrastructure.
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