What is Server monitoring?

Updated April 18, 2026

Server monitoring is a Hyperping product that installs a lightweight agent on your Linux and macOS hosts and streams system metrics back to your dashboard. Each install creates one server entry, and you can collect CPU, memory, disk, and network data without managing your own collector.

Platforms

Linux (systemd) · macOS (launchd)

Architectures

amd64 · arm64

Cadence

15 second heartbeat

Transport

OpenTelemetry over HTTPS

Enrollment

Single-use install token

Footprint

~50 MB RSS target

📘Sits alongside your HTTP monitors

HTTP monitors tell you a page stopped loading from the outside. The agent tells you the machine ran out of memory two minutes earlier. Use both together for full coverage.

What it collects

The agent ships metrics every 15 seconds over an embedded OpenTelemetry pipeline.

Metric categories 5 groups

CPUpercent / load

Utilization percentage, 1/5/15-minute load averages, logical core count.

Memorybytes

Used, available, total, and swap.

Diskbytes

Used, available, and total per mount point.

Networkbytes / count

Bytes and packets in and out per interface, plus errors.

Host metadatastring

Hostname, OS, kernel, architecture, and agent version.

For the full list of fields and units, see Metrics collected.

How enrollment works

Step 01

Generate a token

Add a server in the dashboard. Hyperping returns a single-use install token scoped to that server entry.

Step 02

Exchange for an agent token

The installer POSTs to /v1/ingest/enroll with the install token and receives a long-lived agent token and UUID.

Step 03

Rotate by re-running

Running the installer with a new install token re-enrolls the agent and revokes the old credential. Same server UUID, clean rotation.

Next steps

Quickstart

Getting started →

Add a server, run one command, see metrics in about 30 seconds.

Reference

Install the agent →

Paths, service names, platform notes, and troubleshooting.

Schema

Metrics collected →

Every field and unit the agent reports, plus collection cadence.

Removal

Uninstall →

Stop the agent, purge state, and remove the server entry.

Getting started →