The RHQ project is a systems management suite that provides extensible and integrated systems management for multiple products and platforms across a set of core features such as:

• monitoring and graphing of values
• alerting on error conditions
• remote configuration of managed resources
• remote operation execution
• provisioning of software onto managed machines
• detection of changed files

The project is designed with layered modules that provide a flexible architecture for deployment. It delivers a core user interface that provides audited and historical management across an entire enterprise.

A Server/Agent architecture provides remote management and plugins implement all specific support for managed products.

RHQ is an open source project licensed under the GPL, with some pieces individually licensed under a dual GPL/LGPL license to facilitate the integration with extended packages (now included in RHQ) and Embedded Jopr.

RHQ is also the main upstream community project for the JBoss Operations Network product, a key component of Red Hat's JBoss managed offerings.