Agent360: Unified Telemetry Agent for Logs, Metrics, and Traces
A single binary to ship everything — from syslogs to spans — into your observability pipeline
What is Agent360?
It’s a vendor-neutral telemetry collector designed to unify logs, metrics, and distributed traces under one lightweight agent. It supports multiple backends out of the box — Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenTelemetry, and more — and focuses on simplicity, modularity, and speed.
Unlike tools that specialize in just one thing (like node_exporter or Filebeat), Agent360 does a bit of everything — but keeps the operational overhead minimal.
There’s a Linux fleet:
– A few bare-metal boxes
– Dozens of cloud VMs
– Containers scattered around
Logs are messy. Metrics are patchy.
Traces? Still not collected.
With Agent360, one agent per host handles it all — no need to chain tools or juggle configs from five different daemons.
Where It’s Being Used
– Mid-size infra teams standardizing observability tooling across environments
– DevOps teams looking to replace separate agents for metrics, logs, and traces
– Hybrid setups that need unified telemetry but can’t afford enterprise APM suites
– Organizations migrating from ELK/Prometheus stacks toward OpenTelemetry
Key Characteristics
| Feature | What It Actually Delivers |
| Single Binary | One download, one daemon, no external dependencies |
| Modular Pipeline Design | Enable or disable metrics/logs/traces separately |
| Native OTLP Support | Pushes OpenTelemetry data natively to compatible backends |
| Prometheus-Compatible | Scrapes metrics endpoints and exports them just like Prometheus |
| Loki/Elasticsearch Output | Ships logs to modern storage systems out of the box |
| Built-In Process Monitoring | CPU, memory, thread count, FD leaks per process |
| Syslog + Journald Support | Collects logs from both legacy and modern Linux systems |
| Minimal Config Format | One YAML file for everything; reloads on the fly |
| Container-Aware | Detects running containers, attaches labels, tracks resource usage |
| Auto-Discovery | Finds exposed metrics and logs with minimal manual setup |
What You Actually Need
– Linux (x86_64 or ARMv7+) host with root access
– YAML config file (defaults provided)
– Remote backend to receive data (Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry collector, etc.)
To install:
curl -LO https://agent360.io/downloads/agent360-latest-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvf agent360-latest-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv agent360 /usr/local/bin/
Sample config (/etc/agent360.yaml):
metrics:
prometheus:
scrape_configs:
– job_name: node
static_configs:
– targets: [“localhost:9100”]
logs:
sources:
– type: journald
– type: file
path: /var/log/*.log
outputs:
– type: loki
url: http://loki.internal:3100/loki/api/v1/push
traces:
output:
type: otlp
endpoint: http://otel-collector:4317
Start the agent:
agent360 –config /etc/agent360.yaml
What Admins Actually Say
“We ditched Filebeat, node_exporter, and the OpenTelemetry collector. This one agent does it all.”
“It gave us structure without forcing us into a new stack.”
“The fact that it detects containers and handles journald — that alone saved hours.”
One Thing to Keep in Mind
Agent360 is flexible, not opinionated. It won’t auto-create dashboards, generate alerts, or guide you through instrumentation.
But for teams that already have Grafana, Prometheus, or OTEL in place — and just want one efficient agent to ship data from everywhere — Agent360 gets the job done without becoming the job.
