hertzbeat

An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.

⭐ 7,202 stars on GitHub · 🍴 1,275 forks · 📜 License: apache-2.0 · 💻 Language: Java

What is hertzbeat?

An infrastructure monitoring tool — track servers, containers, services in real time with intuitive dashboards and multi-channel alerts.

Main components

• Integrates collection + analysis + alerting + notification into one platform, with new AI-powered interactions and features under HertzBeat AI, and built-in MCP Server capabilities.
• Unified metrics platform, agentless, Prometheus-compatible, supports application services, programs, databases, caches, operating systems, big data, middleware, web servers, cloud-native, networks,...
• Unified logging platform, seamlessly integrates multiple log sources through OTLP protocol for reporting.
• Unified alerting platform, integrates internal alerts with various external alert sources, unified alert processing and analysis, flexible real-time and periodic threshold rules, grouping convergen...
• Unified message distribution, alerts processed by the alerting platform are distributed via Email Discord Slack Telegram DingTalk WeChat FeiShu SMS Webhook ServerChan and other methods.
• Makes protocols such as Http, Jmx, Ssh, Snmp, Jdbc, Prometheus configurable, allowing you to collect any metrics by simply configuring the template YML file online. Imagine being able to quickly ad...
• High performance, supports horizontal expansion of multi-collector clusters, multi-isolated network monitoring and cloud-edge collaboration.
• Provides powerful status page building capabilities, easily communicate the real-time status of your service to users.

The biggest strength is real-time metrics with low latency + auto anomaly detection + multi-channel alerts.

Best for DevOps/SRE, sysadmins, anyone running >2 servers needing unified dashboard + alerting.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ agent
• 🏷️ ai
• 🏷️ alerting
• 🏷️ database
• 🏷️ grafana
• 🏷️ linux
• 🏷️ llm
• 🏷️ logs
• 🏷️ metrics
• 🏷️ monitor

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/apache/hertzbeat.git
cd hertzbeat
docker build -t hertzbeat .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 hertzbeat

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: apache/hertzbeat
• 🌐 Homepage: https://hertzbeat.apache.org/
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.