How to Install Sensu on Windows 10

Sensu is an open-source monitoring tool that provides monitoring and telemetry solutions for modern infrastructure. In this tutorial, we will walk you through step-by-step instructions on how to install Sensu on the Windows 10 operating system.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with the installation process, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your system.

• Windows 10 OS
• PowerShell
• Git

Step 1: Install Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows that allows us to install packages and dependencies in an automated way. To install Chocolatey, follow the instructions below.

1. Open PowerShell as an administrator.
2. Copy and paste the following command in Windows PowerShell and press Enter.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

3. Once installation has completed, close PowerShell.

Step 2: Install Sensu

Once Chocolatey is installed, we can use it to install Sensu. Follow the instructions below to install Sensu.

1. Open PowerShell as an administrator.
2. Copy and paste the following command in Windows PowerShell and press Enter.

choco install sensu

3. Once installation has completed, Sensu will be installed on your system.

Step 3: Configure Sensu

After installing Sensu, you need to configure it to start and run on your system. Follow the instructions below to configure Sensu.

1. Open PowerShell as an administrator.
2. Use the following command to run the Sensu client configuration wizard.

C:\opt\sensu\bin\sensu-client.exe configure

3. Follow the instructions provided by the Sensu client configuration wizard to configure Sensu as per your requirements.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Sensu on your Windows 10 operating system.

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