Metrics collected

Updated April 18, 2026

The Hyperping agent ships system metrics through an embedded OpenTelemetry collector. Metrics are scraped locally every 30 seconds and batched to the Hyperping ingest endpoint every 15 seconds.

Scrape interval

30 seconds

Export interval

15 seconds

Heartbeat

15 seconds

Transport

OTLP over HTTPS

CPU

Processor metrics 3 fields

cpu.utilizationpercent

Total CPU time spent in user, system, and iowait, as a percentage of wall time.

cpu.loadscalar

1, 5, and 15-minute load averages. Read from /proc/loadavg on Linux and sysctl on macOS.

cpu.corescount

Logical core count of the host.

Memory

Memory metrics 4 fields

memory.usedbytes

Resident memory in use by processes, excluding buffers and cache.

memory.availablebytes

Memory the kernel considers reclaimable without swapping.

memory.totalbytes

Installed physical memory.

swap.usedbytes

Swap currently backed by disk.

Disk

Filesystem metrics 3 fields

disk.usedbytes

Used space per mount point.

disk.availablebytes

Free space per mount point, per statfs.

disk.totalbytes

Total size per mount point.

⚠macOS disk available is approximated

macOS does not expose a direct "available" gauge at the kernel level, so this value is an approximation. Treat small deltas on macOS hosts as noise rather than a precise reading.

Network

Interface counters 5 fields

network.bytes_sentbytes

Per interface, cumulative since boot.

network.bytes_receivedbytes

Per interface, cumulative since boot.

network.packets_sentcount

Per interface.

network.packets_receivedcount

Per interface.

network.errorscount

Per interface, direction, and cause.

Host metadata

Metadata is sent at enrollment and refreshed on each heartbeat, so the dashboard stays accurate across reboots and kernel upgrades.

Hostname

As returned by gethostname.

Distribution and version string, for example Ubuntu 22.04 or macOS 14.5.

Kernel

Kernel version string (uname -r).

Architecture

amd64 or arm64.

Agent version

The installed agent binary version.

Collection cadence

Host metrics

Scraped every 30 seconds by the OpenTelemetry collector.

Batch export

Flushed to Hyperping every 15 seconds.

Heartbeat

The sidecar posts a small liveness ping every 15 seconds.

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