Hyperic HQ — Open Source Systems Monitoring and Management Software
Hyperic is the leader in open source web infrastructure management software. Our easy to use monitoring portal is intelligently designed to auto-discover your infrastructure and get you online within minutes. Having this ability to quickly automate and streamline operations is a must for today's busy IT professional.
Our unique feature set enables companies of all sizes to easily integrate and effectively manage their business critical services at every major layer, including hardware, networks, virtualization, and applications.
HQ's comprehensive suite of tools allows operations to track performance and event data, create complex alerts, run diagnostics, and issue control actions from a single remote console.
Hyperic HQ comes in two product editions which are both world-class solutions. Each edition includes a combination of powerful monitoring and management features designed to meet the unique needs of your company.
Not sure which version is right for you? Check out our feature comparison chart.
Experience "Zero-Touch" Systems Management
Hyperic HQ is designed to automate the systems and application management tasks for software in production, whether it's open source, commercial, or a hybrid. This data center automation strategy is something Hyperic refers to as "zero-touch".
The software installs in minutes and instantly tracks metrics for over 65+ different technologies, across all major operating systems including Linux, Unix, Mac OSX and Windows natively. Powerful alerting, control and diagnostic capabilities combined with extensible web services automation result in a perfectly tailored, comprehensive systems management strategy designed specifically for your web infrastructure.
As a result, companies can now centrally manage the fast-moving technologies typical of Web 2.0 environments by exception, allowing them to focus on only serious issues and allow more time to improving and expanding business critical services.
Key benefits include:
Auto-Discover All Your Software and Hardware Asset Inventory
- Accurately model and display relationships between your hardware, software, and services
- Detect every aspect of your hardware and software automatically, including memory, CPU, disk & network devices, and version & configuration information
- Generate events about any change in configuration or key attributes of any managed resource and use it to alert IT administrators
- Check the health of your hardware and software resources from a single, easy-to-navigate view
Monitor Every Layer of Your Infrastructure
- Collect real-time and historical metrics from production hardware, network and application layers of your infrastructure without invasive instrumentation
- Define intelligent alerts which help you anticipate problems before they cause outages
- Compare and correlate metrics for different resources with customizable indicator views that help you understand interactions between them
- Chart key metrics for resources and groups in a single view to quickly assess the state of your environment
Track All Log, Configuration, and Security Event Data
- Report real-time and historical details of any log event generated by any managed resource
- Track the configuration of any host or application to facilitate impact analysis and change control
- Enforce security policies by detecting and logging any physical or remote access into any host in your environment
- Define alerts to track to specific log messages anywhere in your environment
- Correlate any log event, configuration change, or security event to the availability of your environment
Alert key personnel to performance problems, errors or inventory changes
- Define anything from simple to elaborate conditions to generate alerts
- Obtain the same depth of notification capabilities for everything from OS level faults to service level response times
- Define alerts for any log, configuration, or security event that occurs in your environment
- Perform product-specific control actions on any part of your infrastructure on demand
Diagnose errors and issue corrective control actions remotely
- Correlate performance, log and security data in a single view to best answer "what changed"
- Run remote diagnostics across platforms to gather additional real-time system data
- Control groups of resources sequentially or in parallel
- Integrate your custom control scripts into HQ without any coding
Customize visibility and automation to best manage your unique environment
- Set up your Operations Dashboard with drag and drop portlets, and easy to use configuration controls
- Create groups to help manage and measure the health of large environments
- Define applications to manage as a whole by including specific hardware, software and services that make up your composite application
- Extend Hyperic HQ's powerful management portal to any software or hardware device using easy to describe XML or any programming language that works for you with the Hyperic Management Plugins
- Create new application specific views or build custom web services and automation scripts using the HQU Plugin Framework