Apache HertzBeat

Apache HertzBeat is an open-source real-time observability system that describes itself as AI-powered. It brings collection, analysis, alerting and notification into one platform, works without agents on the monitored hosts, and can be scaled out with collector clusters. It also includes built-in MCP server capabilities and AI-powered interactions under the name HertzBeat AI.

The metrics platform is Prometheus-compatible and covers application services, databases and caches, operating systems, middleware, web servers, big data stacks, cloud-native components and networks. Protocols such as HTTP, JMX, SSH, SNMP, JDBC and Prometheus are configurable through YAML templates, so new monitoring types such as Kubernetes or Docker can be added online. Logs arrive through OTLP. Alerting supports threshold rules, grouping, silence and suppression, and notifications go to email, Discord, Slack, Telegram, DingTalk, WeChat, Feishu, SMS and webhooks.

Custom monitoring and status page building are included. HertzBeat is an Apache Software Foundation project written in Java and licensed under Apache-2.0, and you run it on your own servers. It suits operations teams that want an all-in-one alternative to Zabbix- or Prometheus-based stacks.