SystemCollecti

SystemCollecti is a framework and software stack designed to collect, normalize, and index telemetry and inventory data from distributed computing environments. It provides a modular approach to gathering information such as system metrics, events, configuration data, and software inventory, with the goal of improving observability, governance, and decision making across heterogeneous IT landscapes.

Core components include agents or collectors deployed on target hosts, a central coordination service, a schema or canonical data model, and pluggable backends for storage and querying. Collectors emit data to a transport layer (for example, message queues or streaming systems), where a central processor applies normalization, deduplication, and enrichment before persisting to a datastore and exposing APIs for search and analytics.

The architecture is typically distributed and event-driven, supporting scalable deployment patterns such as sidecar agents in containerized environments or bulk collection in on-premises data centers. Data types include time-series metrics, structured events, configuration inventory, and provenance metadata. Security features often include access control, encryption in transit and at rest, and fine-grained data minimization.

Applications include IT operations and monitoring, compliance and asset management, software supply chain visibility, and research. SystemCollecti is intended to be platform-agnostic, interoperable with existing observability tools, and adaptable to different data retention policies.