What is Hyperic?
Hyperic is an open source IT management and monitoring software designed to provide broad visibility and control across physical, virtual and cloud environments. It can automatically discover infrastructure and applications, measure availability and performance, detect problems, correlate events and facilitate rapid troubleshooting.
Key features of Hyperic include:
- Automatic discovery and mapping of application architecture and infrastructure dependencies
- Monitoring of over 100 application servers, web servers, databases, app frameworks, messaging middleware and more
- Auto-baselining to identify performance anomalies and trigger alerts for common issues
- Customizable dashboards for real-time and historical visibility into systems and apps
- Support for monitoring on-premise, cloud or hybrid environments
- REST APIs and integration with popular DevOps tools like Ansible and ServiceNow
- Role-based access control, auditing and reporting capabilities
Hyperic is well-suited for organizations looking to consolidate monitoring tools, gain unified visibility or implement APM best practices. It can reduce MTTR for application issues through its topological mapping, customizable metric collection and advanced correlation features.