TIBCO Hawk Monitoring System TIBCO Hawk is an event-based monitoring system built around the concept of a distributed, autonomous smart agent that operates on each managed machine in the network. The main objectives are: • Deliver real-time visibility and control of distributed enterprise applications • Utilize rules to assure system availability and performance The software is designed specifically for monitoring distributed systems, so there is no centralized console or frequent polling across the network. With this structure, TIBCO Hawk is able to scale to multi-thousand node global networks without the use of hierarchical managers and has the flexibility to allow individual managed entities to be added or modified without the need to re-configure or re-start any other parts of the system.