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## Description: The mission of Apache HertzBeat is to deliver an open, user-friendly, and intelligent real-time observability platform that enables users worldwide to efficiently monitor and understand their systems, reduce operational complexity, and enhance service reliability. ## Project Status: Current project status: New. New Issues for the board: none. ## Membership Data: Apache HertzBeat was founded 2025-08-21 (10 days ago). There are currently 10 Committers and 18 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:9. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: - Our community is participating in the GSOC 2025. - Our community is participating in the OSPP 2025. - We have confirmed the release manager for version 1.7.3 and are preparing to release new version. - Held one community online meetups in last quarter. ## Community Health: - New contributor +3 - In the past month, 25 authors have pushed 75 commits to master and 131 commits to all branches, 75 PRs merged. Overall the project is progressing well. We are actively attracting more production users and contributors by improving documentation, enhancing stability, and strengthening features.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to a real-time monitoring system with agentless, performance cluster, prometheus-compatible, custom monitoring and status page building capabilities. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache HertzBeat Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache HertzBeat be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a real-time monitoring system with agentless, performance cluster, prometheus-compatible, custom monitoring and status page building capabilities; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache HertzBeat" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache HertzBeat Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache HertzBeat Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache HertzBeat Project: * Francis Chuang <francischuang@apache.org> * Chen Gao <gaochen@apache.org> * Xingcun Gao <gaoxingcun@apache.org> * Chao Gong <gongchao@apache.org> * Dongdong Hu <hudongdong@apache.org> * Hongyu Liu <liuhongyu@apache.org> * Tianyou Liu <liutianyou@apache.org> * Justin Mclean <jmclean@apache.org> * Jianing Wang <jianingwang@apache.org> * QingHua Wang <huacheng@apache.org> * Xiangdong Zhang <xixihaha@apache.org> * Yu Xiao <xiaoyu@apache.org> * Shenghang Zhang <shenghang@apache.org> * Yang Zhang <zhangyang2024@apache.org> * Yonglun Zhang <zhangyonglun@apache.org> * Qingran Zhao <zhaoqingran@apache.org> * Chenxin Zheng <ceilzcx@apache.org> * Shusheng Zhou <shushengzhou@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chao Gong be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache HertzBeat, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7E, Establish the Apache HertzBeat Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
HertzBeat is an easy-to-use, open source, real-time monitoring system. It
features an agentless architecture, high-performance clustering, Prometheus
compatibility, and powerful custom monitoring and status page building
capabilities.
HertzBeat has been incubating since 2024-04-05.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the community and attract more users.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Now the community total has 271 contributors, attracted 12 new
contributors since last report.
2. Two new committer and a new PPMC join the community since last report.
3. The community participated in the Google Summer of Code and OSPP.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Has publish the new version 1.7.1.
2. The new version 1.7.2 is in the process of release.
3. More features and bugfix, doc update
4. In the past month, excluding merges, 18 authors have pushed 21 commits
to master and 43 commits to all branches. On master, 88 files have changed
and there have been 1,654 additions and 830 deletions.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2025-05-30
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-06-17
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, they are very nice.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Yonglun Zhang
Comments:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [X] (hertzbeat) Justn Mclean
Comments:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Francis Chuang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
HertzBeat is an easy-to-use, open source, real-time monitoring system. It
features an agentless architecture, high-performance clustering, Prometheus
compatibility, and powerful custom monitoring and status page building
capabilities.
HertzBeat has been incubating since 2024-04-05.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the community and attract more users.
2. Publish more Apache release by different committers.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. 25 contributors submit 130 commits.
2. Now the community total has 259 contributors, attracted 8 new
contributors since last report.
3. A new committer and a new PPMC join the community since last report.
4. The community participated in the Google Summer of Code and OSPP.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. The new version 1.7.0 is in the process of release.
2. New alarm design has been developed and implemented.
3. More features and bugfix, doc update
4. In the past month, excluding merges, 22 authors have pushed 43 commits
to master and 84 commits to all branches. On master, 222 files have changed
and there have been 7,052 additions and 1,199 deletions.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2024-11-22, new release is being voted on
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-03-26
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, they are very nice.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (hertzbeat) Yonglun Zhang
Comments:
- [X] (hertzbeat) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Justn Mclean
Comments:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Francis Chuang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
HertzBeat is an easy-to-use, open source, real-time monitoring system. It
features an agentless architecture, high-performance clustering, Prometheus
compatibility, and powerful custom monitoring and status page building
capabilities.
HertzBeat has been incubating since 2024-04-05.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the community and attract more users.
2. Publish more Apache release by different committers.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. 26 contributors submit 251 commits.
2. Now the community total has 251 contributors.
3. Students participate in OSPP activities all have done a good job.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. New version v1.6.1 has released.
2. The version 1.7.0 is under active development
3. Integration with Apache Arrow.
4. New alarm module has been developed.
5. More features and bugfix, doc update
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2024-11-22
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2024-09-09
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, they are very nice.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Yonglun Zhang
Comments:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Justn Mclean
Comments:
- [X] (hertzbeat) Francis Chuang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
HertzBeat is an easy-to-use, open source, real-time monitoring system. It
features an agentless architecture, high-performance clustering, Prometheus
compatibility, and powerful custom monitoring and status page building
capabilities.
HertzBeat has been incubating since 2024-04-05.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the community and attract more users.
2. Publish more Apache release by different committers.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. 20 contributors submit 661 commits.
2. We elected 7 new committers to join the community.
3. Participate in OSPP activities to help students participate in open
source.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. new release v1.6.1 is on the voting process.
2. improvements on web ui
3. the java implementation of the impi protocol has been developed.
4. integrate grafana display metrics collect by hertzbeat
5. more huge features and bugfix, doc update
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2024-06-11
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2024-09-09
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, they are very nice.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Yonglun Zhang
Comments:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [X] (hertzbeat) Justn Mclean
Comments:
- [X] (hertzbeat) Francis Chuang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
HertzBeat is an easy-to-use, open source, real-time monitoring system. It
features an agentless architecture, high-performance clustering, Prometheus
compatibility, and powerful custom monitoring and status page building
capabilities.
HertzBeat has been incubating since 2024-04-05.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Publish 1st Apache release.
2. Grow the community and attract more users.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Over the past month, the project has successfully attracted 4 new
contributors, some of whom has shown great promise and potential to be
considered for committer status in the future.
Excluding merges, 26 authors have pushed 105 commits to master and 156
commits to all branches. On master, 792 files have changed and there have
been 22,365 additions and 5,961 deletions.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
During the past month, HertzBeat has fixed the incompatible protocol LGPL
license package, has used Apache Jexl and EclipseLink to replace Hibernate
and Avaitor.
It has added support for custom pulgin, support hugegraph, openai, Apache
Yarn, Hdfs monitoring, support redfish protocol to monitoring server and
more.
These updates are expected to be included in the upcoming Apache release.
And we have conducted three rounds of version release voting.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
We haven't published Apache release.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
HertzBeat has been in incubation since April 05th, 2024. As of yet, no
committers have been elected for the project.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, they are very nice.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (hertzbeat) Yonglun Zhang
Comments: We've started the first release. The team responded
quickly, and all issues were handled promptly.
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Justn Mclean
Comments:
- [X] (hertzbeat) Francis Chuang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
HertzBeat is an easy-to-use, open source, real-time monitoring system. It
features an agentless architecture, high-performance clustering, Prometheus
compatibility, and powerful custom monitoring and status page building
capabilities.
HertzBeat has been incubating since 2024-04-05.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Most of the code is contributed by the top ten contributors and needs
to attract more long-term maintainers.
2. The HertzBeat code relies on the LGPL license package, the orm layer
relies on Hibernate, and the expr calculation layer relies on Avaitor. It
needs to be replaced.
3. Grow the community and attract more users.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No
### How has the community developed since the last report?
This is the first report of HertzBeat.
Over the past month, the project has successfully attracted 17 new
contributors, some of whom has shown great promise and potential to be
considered for committer status in the future.
Excluding merges, 37 authors have pushed 71 commits to master and 244
commits to all branches. On master, 1,439 files have changed and there have
been 36,242 additions and 14,706 deletions.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report of HertzBeat.
During the past month, HertzBeat has updated its official website,
documentation, logo, code migration, licenses, clean up and other work.
It has added support for the monitoring template dynamic menu, alarm
multiple receivers, monitoring Hbase and is currently working on replacing
Hibernate orm and Avaitor.
These updates are expected to be included in the upcoming Apache release.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
We haven't published Apache release.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
HertzBeat has been in incubation since April 05th, 2024. As of yet, no
committers have been elected for the project.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, they are very nice.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (hertzbeat) Yonglun Zhang
Comments: The project initialization has progressed well. Next, we
can begin preparing for the first release.
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Justn Mclean
Comments:
- [ ] (hertzbeat) Francis Chuang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: