Keywatch

- an open source, flexible, osgi-based monitoring system

Keywatch is a free, open source monitoring system that provides the adaptability of a modern monitoring system without being complex or hard to configure.

Keywatch runs on most platforms. The server runs Java OSGi and the client technology is AJAX, requiring only a standard web browser.

By offering Keywatch under the Apache 2 license, we hope to build a community that will contribute functionality for Keywatch to support common monitoring challenges and a lot of specific ones, making Keywatch an attractive alternative to expensive and less flexible systems.

Valuechain

Main features

  • Keywatch supports the full monitoring value chain.
  • High flexibility - write plugins in Java and extend collection any step of the value chain.
  • Distributed monitoring - Agent based collection system using XMLRPC
  • Automate manual monitoring tasks - Agents able to run arbitary scripts to collect information
  • Monitor HW, SW, services, SLA or other objects

See the features site for more detailed featurelisting.

News

2008-05-27 Version 1.1 released

We are pleased to announce the availability of Keywatch 1.1. This release features optional JMS/ActiveMQ support for better scalability and robustness.

2007-04-30 Release

Keywatch 1.0 is released under an open source license.