...
There are already a bunch of system monitoring tools available on the market (e.g. https://collectd.org/related.shtml). We think that we need to provide an open interface to add data to the inspectIT environment and allow to correlate this data and build business value out of it. We thus decided that we want to have integrations that are supported by inspectIT to allow for this data integration. We call them "Host Agent integrations".
...