There's a couple other sensu salt states you can check out also:

https://github.com/blast-hardcheese/blast-salt-states/tree/master/sensu https://github.com/tateeskew/salt-states/tree/master/sensu

I used the tateeskew one when I as experimenting with sensu, and it was pretty easy to get up and going.

@James Thanks for the list, I didn't know about them. I guess it doesn't hurt to have a few examples floating around.