Apache HertzBeat is an observability platform that brings monitoring, log collection, alerting, notification delivery, and status page creation together in a single web-based application.

It supports a broad range of targets including web services, databases, operating systems, middleware, cloud-native platforms, and network services, while also letting administrators define their own monitoring types through configurable YAML templates.

This is free and open source software.

• Provides agentless monitoring for services, databases, caches, operating systems, middleware, cloud-native platforms, networks, and other infrastructure.
• Combines metrics collection, log ingestion, alert processing, and notification delivery in one platform.
• Supports configurable protocols including HTTP, JMX, SSH, SNMP, JDBC, and Prometheus.
• Lets users add custom monitoring types through online YAML template configuration.
• Supports horizontal scaling with multi-collector clusters, isolated network monitoring, and cloud-edge collaboration.
• Includes status page building capabilities for publishing real-time service health information.

Website: github.com/apache/hertzbeat
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Developer: Apache Software Foundation
License: Apache License 2.0

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