AtherOps Linux Agent
The AtherOps Linux Agent is a lightweight observability collector that runs on your Linux servers and ships metrics, logs, and traces to the AtherOps platform.
It's a single systemd service. One install command, one config file. No Kubernetes required.
Who it's for
- Sysadmins and SREs running services on bare-metal or VM Linux hosts.
- Teams that want fleet-wide visibility into CPU, memory, disk, network, processes, and containers without standing up a full observability stack.
- Anyone who wants to forward application logs and OpenTelemetry traces alongside host metrics through a single agent.
What it collects
| Signal | What you get |
|---|---|
| Host metrics | CPU, memory, disk, network, filesystem, load average |
| Process metrics | Top-N processes by memory: CPU, RSS, I/O |
| Container metrics | Per-container CPU, memory, I/O (when Docker is present) |
| Logs | System logs (journald) and any tailed log files you configure |
| Traces | Distributed traces from your apps via OpenTelemetry (OTLP gRPC / HTTP) |
Supported platforms
- Linux: any distribution with systemd
- Architectures:
amd64,arm64
Next step
Head to the Quickstart to install the agent on a host.