Guardare develops open source systems monitoring and alerting software for medium-sized businesses. The company centers its offering on continuous oversight of designated systems, using API and SNMP collection methods to gather operational data and surface actionable events. Guardare presents the platform as a modern monitoring stack built for organizations that need always-on visibility without the weight of a large enterprise deployment.
Its architecture emphasizes resiliency and continuity through distributed micro-services, centralized database modeling, and a lightweight footprint. Guardare supports deployment on a supported micro-appliance or virtual machine, and its product structure includes data collection, normalization, and event-handling components that work together to support monitoring and downstream alerting workflows.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Guardare provides round-the-clock systems monitoring and alerting with an architecture designed to collect, normalize, and route operational data from heterogeneous environments. Its capabilities are oriented around API- and SNMP-based telemetry collection, common-schema data handling, and efficient processing tuned for ongoing monitoring workloads.
The platform is built to fit into existing operating workflows rather than replace them outright. Guardare supports third-party alerting integrations, including PagerDuty, and uses flexible configuration approaches to accommodate cross-manufacturer environments. Deployment flexibility through appliance or virtual-machine options also makes it suitable for teams that want to keep monitoring infrastructure close to their existing systems.
Products and Services
- Guardare: Open source systems monitoring and alerting platform for medium-sized businesses, built to monitor designated systems continuously and trigger alerts through third-party integrations.
- vCollector: Data collection component responsible for 24/7 endpoint data gathering through API and SNMP methods, with flexible API YAML configuration and tunable collection performance.
- Events director: Core Guardare product in the platform workflow, positioned downstream of collection and normalization components as part of the broader monitoring and event pipeline.
Target Customers
Guardare targets medium-sized businesses that need continuous monitoring across their systems without adopting a heavyweight enterprise platform. It is well suited to IT and operations teams managing mixed environments where data must be collected from different vendors and device types through APIs and SNMP.
The offering also fits organizations that want deployment flexibility and tighter operational control, including teams that prefer to run monitoring software on a supported micro-appliance or virtual machine. Businesses looking for open source monitoring software with third-party alert delivery and support for cross-manufacturer environments are a clear fit for Guardare.
Key People
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
- Employees: Undisclosed
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No
