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apache/hertzbeat

Apache HertzBeat provides agentless, real-time observability by integrating metrics collection, log analysis, alerting, and notification into a single platform. It supports configurable monitoring templates and Prometheus-compatible protocols.

Project overview

Project type: MCP · Workflow · Infrastructure
Deployment: Refer to project documentation
License: Apache-2.0

Best for

Operations teams and developers needing an agentless monitoring platform that integrates metrics, logs, alerting, and notifications.
Teams managing multi-isolated networks or requiring multi-collector clusters for horizontal expansion.

Key capabilities

Supports application services, databases, operating systems, middleware, and more via configurable protocols.
Integrates multiple log sources through the OTLP protocol for reporting.
Integrates internal and external alerts with threshold rules, grouping convergence, silence, and suppression.
Distributes alerts via various methods including Email, Discord, Slack, Telegram, DingTalk, WeChat, and SMS.
Makes protocols configurable, allowing collection of any metrics by configuring a template YML file online.
Supports horizontal expansion of multi-collector clusters, multi-isolated network monitoring, and cloud-edge collaboration.
Provides status page building capabilities to communicate the real-time status of services to users.
Ships built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server capabilities.

Limitations and risks

Coding is optional for operation, though custom configurations may require editing YML template files.
Telemetry, data boundary, and cost dependency information is not documented.

Getting started

Run the provided Docker command (docker run -d -p 1157:1157 -p 1158:1158 --name hertzbeat apache/hertzbeat), access http://localhost:1157, and log in with the default account admin/hertzbeat.
Use the pre-packaged binary available with a simple startup script.

Evidence and sources

GitHub project description: An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.
README: No Agent required, high performance cluster, provides powerful custom monitoring and status page building capabilities.
README: Integrates **collection + analysis + alerting + notification** into one platform, with new AI-powered interactions and features under HertzBeat AI, and built-in MCP Server capabil…
README: HertzBeat has been included in the
Release: v1.8.0

Reviewed at: 2026-07-18T06:49:29Z