Silverhawk APM is a modern observability platform designed to give engineers a unified view of their infrastructure health, system performance, and soon—application behavior. It enables DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to monitor, visualize, and react to performance issues in real-time without requiring complex configuration or manual setup.
Built with scalability and simplicity in mind, Silverhawk begins at the infrastructure level—collecting and analyzing system metrics—and is evolving toward complete full-stack observability. The platform will soon support distributed tracing, log aggregation, and uptime monitoring across environments to provide a single pane of glass for operational insights.
At the heart of Silverhawk lies the Silverhawk Infra Agent, a lightweight Node.js-based daemon that runs directly on your servers. The agent continuously collects performance data such as CPU usage, memory consumption, disk activity, and network throughput. This data is then securely transmitted to the Silverhawk Cloud, where it is processed, analyzed, and made available in the real-time monitoring dashboard.
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure Monitoring | Collect and visualize real-time metrics such as CPU utilization, memory usage, disk I/O, and network traffic. The Infra Agent ensures continuous visibility into host-level performance, allowing teams to detect and resolve system bottlenecks quickly. |
| Application Performance (Upcoming) | Future updates will include in-depth application monitoring, enabling analysis of API latency, throughput, error rates, and service dependencies. This will help engineers correlate system behavior with application performance. |
| Log Monitoring | Silverhawk will soon support integrated log collection and correlation, allowing you to connect log events with performance anomalies for better root cause analysis. |
| Alerting and Notifications | Define thresholds for resource usage, set up intelligent alerts, and receive notifications through email, Slack, or Discord when anomalies are detected or systems deviate from normal performance. |
| Infrastructure Health View | The dashboard provides a unified view of your infrastructure’s health, using intuitive color indicators and utilization charts to help you assess the stability and efficiency of your systems. |
| Uptime Monitoring | Track the availability of critical APIs, endpoints, and services. Silverhawk’s uptime module helps ensure reliability and reduce downtime through automated checks and timely alerts. |
Silverhawk follows a three-layer architecture that connects server-side agents to the centralized cloud dashboard through secure data channels. The process begins with metric collection at the host level, followed by data transmission to the Silverhawk Cloud, and finally, visualization on the Silverhawk Dashboard.
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
| Infra Agent | Installed globally via npm i -g silverhawk-infra, the Infra Agent runs locally on servers and collects metrics every 15 seconds, including CPU, memory, disk, and network usage. |
| API Gateway | The API Gateway receives encrypted data from agents, validates payloads, and optimizes data ingestion with caching mechanisms to ensure efficient, high-throughput communication between hosts and the cloud. |
| Dashboard | The Silverhawk Dashboard provides real-time visualization of collected metrics, displaying system health, performance trends, and infrastructure status. It also supports alert creation, uptime tracking, and comparative analytics. |
Security and reliability are foundational principles of the Silverhawk platform. All metric transmissions between the Infra Agent and Cloud are encrypted using HTTPS with AES-level data encryption. The agent includes automatic retry mechanisms, configurable heartbeat intervals, and built-in safeguards against data loss. Designed for minimal impact, the agent typically consumes less than 1% CPU and under 50MB of RAM, ensuring it remains lightweight and production-safe.
Silverhawk emphasizes a developer-first experience by removing the friction of traditional monitoring setups. There are no complex configuration files to edit or agents to compile — installation and connection to the dashboard take only a few seconds. Silverhawk runs seamlessly across Linux, macOS, and Windows environments, offering instant visibility and reliable data streams from the moment it’s installed.
See how SilverHawk outperforms traditional APM tools in simplicity, scalability, and startup-friendliness.
| Feature | SilverHawk | Other Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Setup & Onboarding | One-click agent setup, auto-discovery of services. | Complex setup requiring multiple agents and manual configs. |
| Target Audience | Designed for startups and fast-growing SaaS teams. | Built mainly for large enterprises with SRE teams. |
| Pricing | Transparent, usage-based pricing — startup-friendly. | Expensive, tiered pricing with hidden scaling costs. |
| Performance Insights | Unified view of metrics, traces, and logs in one dashboard. | Data scattered across modules; harder to correlate. |
| Alerting & Intelligence | Adaptive alerts that learn system behavior — less noise. | Static threshold-based alerts that create alert fatigue. |
| UX / Dashboard Design | Minimal, modern, developer-centric design. | Cluttered dashboards with too much data density. |
| Maintenance Overhead | Lightweight; minimal ops effort required. | High maintenance and configuration complexity. |
| Integration | Plug-and-play with Node.js, Python, Go, etc. | Manual setup or plugin installation required. |
| Customization | Highly customizable alerts and dashboards. | Limited flexibility and rigid layouts. |
| Support & Community | Active community and early-adopter support. | Generic enterprise support; slower iteration. |
🚀 SilverHawk gives startups clarity, speed, and cost-efficiency without the enterprise baggage.
With its roadmap expanding toward Application Performance Monitoring, logging, tracing, and uptime assurance, Silverhawk positions itself as a complete, scalable observability solution for modern DevOps teams.
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npm i -g silverhawk-infra
# Step 1: Send initial heartbeat
silverhawk-infra heartbeat --api-key <YOUR_API_KEY>
# Step 2: Start monitoring
silverhawk-infra start --api-key <YOUR_API_KEY>Begin by installing the SilverHawk agent globally and sending a heartbeat to register your infrastructure. Once acknowledged, the dashboard will display its status as “Acknowledged”.
Next, start the monitoring process using the start command. When metrics begin streaming successfully, the status automatically updates to “Online”, indicating active monitoring and healthy data flow.
[Agent Installed]
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[Heartbeat Sent] → Status: "Acknowledged"
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[Start Monitoring] → Metrics Begin Streaming
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[Dashboard Updates] → Status: "Online"💬 Need Help?