A single static binary starts reporting on a 60-second cycle. No configuration file, no YAML, no dashboard to assemble first — the server appears in your fleet view already populated.
Agents online
4 / 4
Alerts firing
0
Avg CPU
33%
Last telemetry
12s ago
cpu / mem · 60s batch · services rescanned every 5 min
Every host, its live CPU and memory, and the services the agent found on its own.
Sampled every 5 seconds and sent as a batch every 60, so a spike between batches is still in the data rather than averaged away at the source.
Most monitoring makes you declare your services before it will watch them, which means the one nobody remembered to declare is the one that fails silently. The agent enumerates what is actually running on the host instead — nginx, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Docker, and anything else holding a systemd unit — and rescans every five minutes.
A service installed a month after the agent still turns up. So does a service that stopped: the discovery list is replaced on each report, not merged, so a process that disappears disappears from the dashboard too rather than lingering as a permanently green entry that nothing is checking.
The same pass finds scheduled jobs in the host’s user crontabs, which is how cron monitoring gets set up without anyone having to remember what is in there.
An agent that costs you an incident is worse than no agent. The numbers below are measured on real hosts, not modelled:
ProtectSystem=strict, NoNewPrivileges, read-only elsewhere.systemctl show call used to observe job outcomes.When the control plane is unreachable the agent does not discard telemetry. It buffers to a local ring, persists that buffer to disk so a reboot mid-outage does not lose it, and drains on reconnect at a rate that respects the ingestion rate limit. Backoff runs from 2 up to 16 minutes while the API stays down.
Why this matters
Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Rocky, Alpine, Amazon Linux) on x86_64 and aarch64, plus Windows Server on x86_64. The command below is read-only and installs nothing — it reports what Atlas would see on the host.
$curl -fsSL https://atlas.zuviosystems.com/install.sh | sh