{"repo":"ronin1770/heka-insights-agent","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/ronin1770/heka-insights-agent","clone":"git clone https://github.com/ronin1770/heka-insights-agent.git","description":"A lightweight agent for collecting essential Linux system telemetry and shipping it to a configurable backend.","language":"Python","stars":12,"topics":["agent","cloud","cloud-native","devops","exporter","linux","metrics","monitoring","openmetrics","opentelemetry"],"license":"Apache-2.0","category":"analytics","readme_excerpt":"Heka Insights Agent Heka Insights Agent is a lightweight, extensible, open-source telemetry agent for Linux systems. It is designed to collect core host-level metrics in a unified structure so the output can be consumed by a wide range of observability and monitoring backends such as Datadog , New Relic , and similar platforms. The project is being built to stay simple, portable, contributor-friendly, and flexible enough for future standalone executable packaging. --- Why This Project Exists Many telemetry agents are either tightly coupled to a specific vendor, too heavy for smaller deployments, or difficult to extend for custom use cases. Heka Insights Agent aims to provide: - lightweight system telemetry collection - a clean and modular Python codebase - a unified internal output format - compatibility with multiple Linux distributions - an open-source foundation for community contributions - a path toward standalone executable distribution --- Key Goals - Collect essential host-level telemetry from Linux systems - Normalize collected data into a common structure - Support downstream integration with Datadog, New Relic, and similar backends - Keep the runtime lightweight and easy to operate - Allow future packaging as standalone executables - Encourage open-source contributions and extensibility --- Supported Platforms The agent targets Linux, with packaged release paths currently documented for: - Debian / Ubuntu amd64 - CentOS Stream 9 / RHEL 9 / Rocky Linux 9 / AlmaLinux","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/ronin1770","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/ronin1770/heka-insights-agent/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}