Apache HertzBeat Quickstart

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Apache HertzBeat Quickstart

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🎡 Introduction

Apache HertzBeat is a user-friendly, open-source, real-time monitoring system. It is agentless, highly performant, Prometheus-compatible, and designed to provide powerful custom monitoring and status page capabilities.

Features

  • Comprehensive Monitoring: Supports monitoring for web services, programs, databases, caches, operating systems, web servers, middleware, big data platforms, cloud-native environments, networks, and custom metrics.
  • Ease of Use: Web-based, agentless, and requires zero learning curve with one-click monitoring and alerting.
  • Prometheus-Compatible: Seamlessly integrates with the Prometheus ecosystem, enabling easy monitoring of resources via a web UI.
  • High Performance: Features multi-collector clusters, multi-isolated network monitoring, and cloud-edge collaboration for horizontal scalability.
  • Flexible Alerts: Provides customizable alarm thresholds and timely notifications through Discord, Slack, Telegram, Email, WeChat, Webhook, and SMS.

Technology Highlights

HertzBeat leverages established protocols and standards to collect monitoring data:

  • SNMP: For network switches and routers.
  • JMX: For Java application monitoring.
  • JDBC: For database information.
  • SSH: For script-based data collection.
  • HTTP/JSONPath/Prometheus: For API-based metric collection.
  • IPMI: For server hardware monitoring.

By abstracting these protocols into configurable YAML templates, HertzBeat allows users to create custom templates for any desired metric.

Apache HertzBeat Overview

Built-in Monitoring Types

HertzBeat supports monitoring for a wide variety of resources, including:

  • Web and API Monitoring: Website, HTTP API, Ping, Port Telnet, SSL Certificate, and more.
  • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Oracle, and ClickHouse.
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Ubuntu, Windows, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora CoreOS, and more.
  • Middleware and Services: Tomcat, Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Hive, Spark, Hadoop, and Kubernetes.
  • Network Devices: CiscoSwitch, HuaweiSwitch, HPE Switch, and TPLinkSwitch.
  • Custom Monitoring: Create your own templates for specialized use cases.

For a complete list of supported resources, visit the official documentation.

Open Source and Extensible

  • Truly Open Source: Maintained under the Apache 2.0 license with no limitations on monitoring capacity or types.
  • Modern Tech Stack: Built using Java, SpringBoot, TypeScript, and Angular, making it highly adaptable for secondary development.
  • Community Recognized: Featured in the CNCF Observability and Monitoring Landscape.

Getting Started

Launch Apache HertzBeat using Docker with a single command:

docker run -d -p 1157:1157 -p 1158:1158 --name hertzbeat apache/hertzbeat

Access http://localhost:1157 default account username/password admin/hertzbeat

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