Sensu offers a cost-effective and customizable monitoring solution that integrates with InfluxDB and Grafana to streamline infrastructure monitoring. Sensu's monitoring event pipeline allows users to collect, process, and route various event types such as discovery, availability, telemetry, and alerts, with its embedded StatsD daemon handling metric aggregation. Sensu service checks, which operate similarly to Nagios checks, generate metrics that can be visualized through Grafana, leveraging Sensu's support for multiple metric formats and extensive plugin capabilities. The integration with time series databases like InfluxDB, facilitated by a Sensu InfluxDB handler, allows for enriched metric tagging and seamless storage of event data. Sensu's dynamic and reusable pipeline supports multiple event types and offers a centralized entry point for diverse telemetry data, enhancing visibility across applications, systems, and infrastructure. The Sensu dashboard, while backend- and API-driven, works in conjunction with Grafana to provide a sleek visualization of critical metrics, demonstrating the power of open-source tools in monitoring complex infrastructures.