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Simple Observability Agent (simob) is a lightweight agent designed to
collect system metrics and logs from your servers and forward them to
simpleobservability.com endpoints.
It was built on a single promise: monitoring shouldn't be a project.
simob is designed for developers and teams who need full visibility into their infrastructure without spending hours on setup, maintenance, or learning complex
query languages.
Philosophy
Zero-config by default
Install the agent with a single command, provide an API key, and you’re done.
By default, simob starts by sending heartbeats only.
From there, you enable and adjust metrics and log collection directly from the Simple Observability web UI. There are no local configuration files to edit, no YAML to learn, and nothing to redeploy on your servers.
Unified telemetry
Metrics and logs are collected by a single agent, configured from a single source of truth, and sent to a single backend.
There is no need to deploy or operate separate agents or ingestion pipelines for different signal types.
Lightweight
simob is a single static binary with no runtime dependencies.
It uses minimal CPU and memory, is safe to run on small VPSes, and won’t interfere with your applications or workloads.
How it works?
- You install the agent on your server.
- The agent fetches its collection configuration from Simple Observability.
- Metrics and logs are collected locally.
- Data is securely pushed to the Simple Observability backend.
- You explore, search, and get alerted through the web interface.
The agent is intentionally simple. All complexity lives on the backend, where it can evolve without requiring agent updates or risky configuration changes on your servers.
Next steps
Ready to get started? Choose your installation path below: