Monitoringhoz

Monitoringhoz is a fictional open-source monitoring framework designed for collecting, storing, and visualizing time-series data from IT infrastructure and applications. The project emphasizes modular design, ease of deployment, and interoperability with existing observability stacks.

Architecture comprises a lightweight agent, a scalable backend, a query layer, and a web UI. The agent can run on hosts and containers, collects metrics, logs, and traces, and can push data using protocols such as OpenTelemetry, StatsD, or Prometheus remote write. The backend stores data in a time-series database with pluggable storage backends. The query API supports filtering, aggregations, and downsampling; dashboards render via a web interface and can be embedded into external portals.

Core features include dashboards, alerting with threshold rules, anomaly detection, and event correlation. It includes access control, multi-tenant support, and a plugin system for integrations with alert managers, notification channels, ticketing systems, and cloud providers.

Deployment and operations: monitoringhoz can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, with containerized deployment via Docker and Kubernetes operators. It supports service discovery, auto-instrumentation, and scalable sharding. It offers import/export of dashboards and configuration as code.

Development and reception: The concept originated in the mid-2020s in communities exploring open observability tooling; it remains less widely adopted than some established systems but is discussed as an option for teams seeking a self-hosted, customizable solution.