New Agent CLI & API

Self-Serve Diagnostics

Lender Dashboard

Revenue Dashboard

Fleet Observability: Every Server Tested, Every Metric Visible

Product Lead for AI Platforms

Ryan Hatch

Ryan Hatch | Authors | Hydra Host

<h2>Hydra's CLI: Manage GPU Fleet from Terminal</h2>When AI engineers live in the terminal shell - their GPU fleet management should, too. The Hydra CLI puts our full GPU control plane in the terminal where AI Platforms already work. Every operation that used to require a dashboard is now one command, and for teams using AI coding agents, the CLI gives AI agents a direct way to interact with your GPU fleet.&nbsp;<h3>Your Terminal is home to everything - except your GPU infrastructure</h3>SSH, Ansible, shell scripts, Python, Kubernetes, Claude Code - they all run from the command line. The terminal is where engineers build, debug, and automate. Every layer of the stack is one command away. &nbsp; But GPU infrastructure management has required context switching and reaching for browser-only interfaces that don't talk with your other tooling. Need to check server availability? Open a browser. Provision new capacity? Click through a multi-step UI. Power cycle a node? Dashboard again. Each operation pulls you out of the terminal environment. &nbsp; For teams running AI coding agents - tools like Claude Code that can write code, run tests, and deploy services - there's no easy way to plug them into infrastructure operations.

<h2>Agent-Ready GPU Infrastructure</h2>We built the Hydra CLI so agents like Claude Code can talk to your GPU infrastructure. Install via NPM, run&nbsp;brokkr login, and you're ready to go. &nbsp; We built a specific command for AI agents:&nbsp;docs. When an agent runs it, the CLI outputs the complete reference - every command, every flag, every JSON output schema. The agent reads this once and knows how to interface with your entire Hydra GPU fleet. &nbsp; Here is what that looks like in practice. You ask your AI coding agent to check GPU health across a deployment. The agent runs&nbsp;brokkr deployments --json&nbsp;to list your active servers, selects the target, extracts the IP and connection string, SSHes into the server, runs&nbsp;nvidia-smi, and reports back GPU health across your fleet. All from a simple prompt. No dashboard, no clicking through menus. &nbsp; This is about making it easy for engineers to bring AI into GPU infrastructure workflows - quick answers about deployments, status, and health from a simple prompt.&nbsp;<h2>Automation Ready</h2>&nbsp;The Hydra CLI slots directly into the automations engineers already run - Ansible playbooks, shell scripts, Python. Check server status while tailing logs. Power cycle a node between Ansible tasks. Reprovision a server from a shell script. Every deployment operation is a single command with structured output, ready to plug into your existing toolchains. &nbsp; Deployment operations&nbsp;give you direct control over your servers. List all deployments with sorting, filtering, and search. View full details on any deployment by ID. Power on, off, or cycle via IPMI. Activate rescue mode. Lock deployments to prevent accidental destructive actions. Reprovision, decommission, and organize servers into projects - each a single command. &nbsp; Organization management&nbsp;covers the operational layer your platform team runs day-to-day. Control members, roles, and invitations. Create and manage API keys. Set up webhooks with full delivery history and retry. Handle billing and payment methods. Manage org settings - all without opening a browser. &nbsp; Pipe deployment lists into monitoring scripts. Trigger power cycles from CI/CD pipelines. Build fleet management workflows that run on a schedule. Every command supports&nbsp;--json&nbsp;for machine-readable output. &nbsp; The CLI covers roughly 47 commands across deployments, organization management, and authentication.&nbsp;<h2>Interactive CLI</h2>We also provide the CLI in interactive mode for engineers. Run the CLI with no arguments and you get a navigable menu for every operation. Arrow keys to browse, enter to select, guided prompts for each action. &nbsp; The CLI is also available directly inside the Hydra browser app - same commands, same output. For teams evaluating the tool before a local install, access is available through the Private Beta program.&nbsp;<h2>API v1.0: The Stable Foundation</h2>The Hydra API v1.0 is the stable, versioned layer behind everything the CLI does. Now in General Availability, the API provides documented endpoints across device management, organization control, authentication, and system health - with a full OpenAPI spec published at hydrahost.com/api/redoc. &nbsp; Every CLI command maps to an API endpoint. Teams building custom orchestration, programmatic provisioning pipelines, or event-driven automation via webhooks can build directly on the API. It is backwards-compatible, so integrations built today will not break tomorrow.

<h2>Getting Started</h2>API v1.0&nbsp;is in General Availability. Explore the full documentation and OpenAPI spec at&nbsp;<a href="https://brokkr.hydrahost.com/api/redoc">hydrahost.com/api/redoc</a>. &nbsp; The Hydra CLI&nbsp;is in Private Beta. Request access through Hydra Support and your team can be running commands within minutes of installation. <a href="https://brokkr.hydrahost.com/api/redoc">Explore the API Documentation</a> | <a href="mailto:support@hydrahost.com">Request CLI Beta Access</a>

GPU infrastructure doesn't belong behind a browser. The Hydra CLI puts your full GPU control plane where AI Platforms already work.

<h2>Fix and Diagnose Your GPU Servers - No Ticket Required</h2>Earlier today, your team pushed an update to inferencing workloads in production. Now 2:17 AM - GPUs are throwing errors on a few servers and workloads are failing. Is it something in the update, or are the GPUs themselves going bad? On bare metal, there's no snapshot to restore and no replacement instance to spin up. You need these nodes back, and you need to know whether the issue is your configuration or the hardware underneath it.&nbsp;<h3>The Problem No One Talks About</h3>Bare metal GPU infrastructure gives you all the benefits of dedicated hardware, full control, privacy, security, and the performance that multi-tenant environments can't match. With that additional control, there's also more to manage. When something breaks - a workload misconfiguration, a firmware or driver incompatibility, a corrupted SSH config, a failed kernel update - that same dedicated hardware becomes a frustration between you and answers. &nbsp; One of the hardest parts of running production workloads on bare metal is the blurry line between configuration issues and true hardware failures. A GPU throwing errors could be a driver mismatch from your last update, or it could be a hardware issue. The symptoms look similar from inside your workload. &nbsp; The traditional path to resolution sends you down a support rabbit hole. File a ticket, describe the symptoms, wait for someone to manually test the server and report back. If the issue turns out to be your configuration, you've wasted hours waiting for an answer you could have found yourself. If it is hardware, you're still waiting - but now you have to convince the provider that the problem is real. And if you just request a new node, the same thing might happen again, because you never actually identified the root cause.&nbsp;<h3>Introducing Self-Serve Diagnostics</h3>Go from "something's wrong" to "here's exactly what happened" in 60 seconds - and from there to a fix in minutes. &nbsp; Run a full diagnostic sweep and know immediately whether your hardware is healthy, degraded, or failing. Boot into a clean rescue environment with known working kernels and drivers to test the server independently of your workload. If the hardware checks out, you know the issue is in your configuration - and you can fix it right there in Rescue Mode. If the hardware needs attention, send the full diagnostic evidence to our support team in one command and we start working on it immediately. &nbsp; The whole loop - from detection to diagnosis to resolution - gets your production workloads back up and running in minutes instead of hours.&nbsp;<h2>Single Workflow: Diagnose, then Fix</h2>We built two self-service capabilities that work together or independently, depending on what you need.&nbsp;<h3>Rescue Mode - Recovery and Testing on Your Terms</h3>

Rescue Mode reboots your server into a full Linux environment loaded entirely in memory, pre-configured with your SSH key. One click from the control plane or one API call from your automation. Console access is typically available in 5-15 minutes. &nbsp; This environment runs known working kernels and drivers, which makes it valuable for more than just recovery. Boot into Rescue Mode and you can isolate the underlying hardware from your host OS entirely - run diagnostics, stress tests, or connectivity checks against a clean baseline. If the hardware passes, you know the issue lives in your workload configuration. &nbsp; When you do need to repair, you have full access. Mount drives and fix configurations directly. Repair broken netplan, firewall rules, or routing. Restore SSH access by repairing daemon configs or regenerating keys. Recover from boot failures, resize or repartition disks, reconfigure your OS - all while keeping your data safe. &nbsp; Your existing data and workloads stay untouched through all of it. Rescue Mode provides access - it doesn't modify anything you haven't explicitly changed.

<h3>The Diagnostics Suite - One Command, One Verdict</h3>The Diagnostics Suite gives you direct, on-demand visibility into the full health of your server. A single topology-aware health check detects your machine configuration - PCIe, NVLink, or NVSwitch - and automatically runs the right tests. The result is one clear verdict:&nbsp;HEALTHY,&nbsp;DEGRADED, or&nbsp;UNHEALTHY. &nbsp; Nine health check categories cover GPU presence, driver status, memory and ECC integrity, PCIe link quality, thermal and power state, kernel errors, peer-to-peer communication, NVLink health, and Fabric Manager status. Fifteen diagnostic commands go deeper when you need them - ECC/RAS analysis, register-level GPU debug, NVMe SMART data, InfiniBand status, and GPU-to-GPU bandwidth tests. &nbsp; The full suite runs in 30-60 seconds. When you need Hydra's help,&nbsp;--send&nbsp;transmits the complete results directly to our support team. The ticket arrives pre-loaded with evidence. We start fixing instead of asking questions.

<h3>From Detection to Resolution in Minutes</h3>Run diagnostics to get the verdict. If the hardware is healthy, the issue is in your workload or OS configuration - boot into Rescue Mode to test against a clean baseline and make repairs. If the hardware is degraded or failing,&nbsp;--send&nbsp;the diagnostic data and our team picks it up immediately. No ambiguity about who's responsible for what, no wasted time chasing the wrong root cause. Hydra tools give you diagnostic answers fast.&nbsp;<h2>Fast Workload Recovery</h2><ul><li>30-60 seconds&nbsp;for a full diagnostic sweep across 9 health check categories and 15 available commands. Hydra diagnostics is the difference between downtime ambiguity and a clear answer before your next standup.</li><li>5-15 minutes&nbsp;from Rescue Mode activation to SSH access in a full in-memory Linux environment with known working kernels and drivers. Not a limited recovery shell - a complete OS with your SSH key already loaded.</li><li>Non-destructive recovery&nbsp;- your data, your workloads, your disk layouts all remain intact. Rescue Mode only provides access to repair what's broken. Nothing changes unless you change it.</li><li>API-first design&nbsp;for both tools. Script your recovery workflows, schedule diagnostic checks, trigger Rescue Mode from your orchestration layer. Both integrate directly into existing automation.</li><li>One-command support handoff&nbsp;- --send&nbsp;transmits full diagnostics to Hydra support instantly. No copying terminal output into a ticket. No describing what you're seeing over chat. The evidence arrives structured, complete, and ready to act on.</li><li>All current-generation GPUs supported&nbsp;including B300, B200, H200, H100, and RTX 6000 Pro, with broad compatibility across previous generations. Rescue Mode and the Diagnostics Suite are available on every node rented on Hydra.</li><li>&nbsp;</li></ul><h2>Hydra vs. the Alternatives</h2>

<h3>Get Early Access</h3>Log into your Hydra control plane and launch Rescue Mode on any active deployment, or SSH in and run&nbsp;brokkr-diagnostics --run all&nbsp;for an immediate health check. Both tools are available on every node rented on Hydra. <a href="https://brokkr.hydrahost.com/helpdesk/docs">Run Diagnostics</a> | <a href="https://brokkr.hydrahost.com/deployments/">Launch Rescue Mode on a Deployment</a>

Your GPU server is down and you're waiting on a support ticket. Hydra's self-serve diagnostics and Rescue Mode put recovery back in your hands.

&nbsp;<h2>Asset Visibility for GPU Financing</h2>You financed $100M+ in GPU servers deployed across three AI Factories. Six months later, your quarterly review is due - and the only asset data you have is a spreadsheet the operator emailed last month.&nbsp;<h2>Visibility Gap for GPU Financing</h2>&nbsp;Capital finance teams managing GPU hardware portfolios face a core visibility gap that most hadn't anticipated. AI Factory operators have no efficient way to share verified, real-time asset data. Lenders have no way to access asset data independently. Both sides are stuck with the wrong tools. &nbsp; When a lender needs to confirm that specific servers within each cluster - identified by serial number - are physically installed and operational, there is no shared system to answer that question. Without independent asset verification, large amounts of capital are at risk. The result looks the same everywhere: periodic emails, manually compiled spreadsheets, and reconciliation calls that burn hours without producing audit-ready records. The operator pulls data from one place, formats it in another, and sends it over in a third. The lender receives it days later with no way to verify it against the source. &nbsp; Scale makes this worse. A lender financing assets across multiple AI Factories is reconciling separate reports from each facility, each in a different format, each on a different timeline. The level of capital risk &amp; lack of visibility are real barriers to scaling GPU financing portfolios.

&nbsp;<h2>Verified Asset Data, Shared Visibility, Bigger Deals</h2>&nbsp;We built the Lender Dashboard to solve this. Both sides get a shared source of truth - verified asset data that either party can access independently, updated every hour. &nbsp; For lenders, that means self-service verification replaces email chains and spreadsheets. Open the portal, confirm your financed servers are connected, check health diagnostics, and see whether they are generating revenue. No request to the operator required. &nbsp; For AI Factory operators, the benefit is equally direct. Lender inquiries that used to require manual data pulls and formatted reports now resolve themselves. The Lender Dashboard gives operators an efficient way to surface verified data - and gives lenders independent access to it. Both sides move faster, and increased transparency supports larger financing commitments.

<h2>Four Pillars of Asset Visibility</h2>&nbsp;The Lender Dashboard gives financing partners a dedicated portal with direct visibility into every server they have financed - across every AI Factory on the Hydra platform. We built it around four pillars. &nbsp; Asset verification&nbsp;ties every server to its hardware serial number. Lenders can confirm that the specific hardware they financed is physically installed and recognized by Hydra's infrastructure. This is purpose-built for audit trails and asset reconciliation - the serial-number-level tracking that loan documentation requires. &nbsp; Connection status&nbsp;comes from Hydra's hardware controller at the IPMI/BMC layer - the infrastructure management network that communicates directly with each server's baseboard management controller. Connected or disconnected, verified by the platform, not reported by a person. Automated verification at the infrastructure layer replaces manual status checks. &nbsp; Device health&nbsp;goes beyond confirming a server exists. Lenders see technical specs, burn-in test results, and full diagnostic health check history for each server. Initial qualification results and ongoing health trends are both visible. This is the difference between knowing a server is present and knowing it is performing to spec. &nbsp; Monetization data&nbsp;answers the question lenders care about most: is this hardware earning? Utilization percentage, current rental pricing, and active rental status for each financed asset - synced from Hydra's billing and provisioning systems. Lenders can see whether their hardware is sitting idle or actively generating revenue, and at what rate. &nbsp; All four data categories refresh hourly. Asset status, health metrics, and monetization data update on the same cycle, giving both sides a consistent and current view.

<h2>What This Means in Practice</h2>There is no established lender portal for GPU financing today. Both sides have been working around the absence of shared tooling - operators lack an efficient way to share verified data, and lenders lack tools to access it independently. The Lender Dashboard is the first purpose-built portal that gives both parties infrastructure-verified asset data direct from Hydra's hardware controller.&nbsp;

&nbsp;<h2>Lend with Confidence</h2>&nbsp;The Lender Dashboard is asset visibility, not loan management. It provides the asset-side data - connection, health, and monetization - that feeds into a lender's own loan management systems. Repayment tracking, collateral ratios, and credit assessments remain where they belong: in the lender's existing workflows. &nbsp; What we provide is the verified foundation those systems need. When lenders can independently confirm that financed assets are connected, healthy, and earning, both sides gain the confidence to move faster and commit to larger deals.

&nbsp;<h2>Get Early Access</h2>&nbsp;The Lender Dashboard is in Private Beta. If you are a GPU financing firm, reach out to our team to get early access to verified asset visibility across your hardware portfolio.  &nbsp;<a href="https://hydrahost.com/contact">Talk to our team</a>

You financed $100M+ in GPU servers. Can you verify they're connected, healthy, and earning? The Lender Dashboard gives you serial-number-level visibility.

<h2>Monetization Dashboard: See Revenue, Utilization, and Invoicing in One View</h2>&nbsp;You deployed $100M+ in GPU hardware six months ago. Quarterly reporting is due Friday. The earnings data lives in one spreadsheet, utilization numbers in another, and invoice status sits in email threads between sales, operations, and accounting. Pulling a clean financials report means stitching together multiple Slack conversations - and hoping nothing was missed.&nbsp;<h2>The Problem</h2>&nbsp;AI Factory operators invest millions of dollars in GPU hardware. That hardware generates revenue every hour it runs. But tracking financial returns has meant cobbling together information from disconnected systems - revenue in one place, utilization estimates in another, invoice status scattered across email threads and spreadsheets.&nbsp;The cost of that fragmentation compounds. Producing an accurate earnings report takes hours of manual reconciliation. Utilization data, when it exists, is often aggregated at the fleet level - not broken down by chip type, which is where the real investment decisions happen. Open invoices require manual follow-up to confirm payment status and timing.&nbsp;For operators managing significant hardware portfolios, these gaps aren't just inconvenient. They create information asymmetry between rental operations and business leadership, your board, and financials. Investors and fund managers need precise, current data to evaluate returns. Data center operators need it to make deployment decisions. When financial reporting requires manual effort, it slows every downstream decision - and it quietly erodes trust.&nbsp;Deals, revenue, utilization, invoices - all in different places. You deserve it all in one view.&nbsp;<h2>Introducing Monetization Dashboard</h2>&nbsp;With the Monetization Dashboard, you open a single view and the answers are already there. Revenue for any time period - week, month, quarter, year - broken down by cluster site and chip type. Utilization rates showing which GPUs are earning and which are sitting idle. Every invoice - paid, open, upcoming - with exact dollar amounts and due dates.&nbsp;Your quarterly investor report takes minutes instead of hours. You pull the data directly from the dashboard or export a CSV and hand it to your accounting team. No reconciliation across five systems. No second-guessing whether the numbers are current - they refresh every hour.&nbsp;Fund managers get the financial transparency they need to evaluate asset returns with confidence. Data center operators see which chip types are in demand and which are underperforming, so they can make informed decisions about future deployments. Accounting teams get clean export files ready for revenue recognition and accounts receivable workflows.&nbsp;You deserve real revenue visibility into what your AI hardware earns. That is exactly what Hydra delivers.&nbsp;<h2>The Solution</h2>&nbsp;The Monetization Dashboard is a unified financial operations view built for AI Factory operators who deploy GPU hardware through Hydra. It brings revenue, utilization, and invoicing data into a single interface - updated hourly.&nbsp;Revenue Earnings Over Time&nbsp;Tracks total revenue with historical trend lines. You can break it down by cluster site, chip type, or time period. Weekly, monthly, quarterly - pick the window that matches your reporting cycle.

Utilization Over Time by Chip Type&nbsp;Monitors occupancy rates across your GPU fleet. B300s, B200s, H200s, H100s, RTX 6000 Pros - each chip type gets its own utilization curve over configurable time periods. This is where deployment intelligence lives. You can see which chips are in demand, which carry vacancy, and how those trends shift over weeks and months. That data informs both deployment decisions and pricing.

Complete Invoicing Visibility&nbsp;Shows every invoice in one place. Paid, open, upcoming. Dollar amounts, due dates, payment status, including invoice IDs for accounting reconciliation - all at a glance. No more checking email threads or reconciling across fragmented datasets to find out if a payment landed.&nbsp;CSV Export for Accounting&nbsp;Lets you download full earnings and invoice history for revenue recognition, accounts receivable tracking, and reconciliation. Your finance team gets a clean file they can drop into their existing workflows.&nbsp;Most AI Factory owners have to cobble together spreadsheets from multiple sources, causing major headaches. We built the financial operations dashboard for AI Factories.

<h2>Proof Points</h2>&nbsp;Hourly data refresh. Revenue, utilization, and invoice data update every hour. You're looking at current revenue as of this morning, not a report from last week or last month.&nbsp;Chip-level utilization breakdowns. Occupancy and vacancy rates displayed per GPU type - B300, B200, H200, H100, RTX 6000 Pro. This is the data that informs which hardware to deploy next and where idle capacity sits.&nbsp;Invoicing synced with billing. Paid, open, and upcoming invoices with exact dollar amounts and due dates. Status is always current, not waiting on a monthly statement.&nbsp;Historical revenue trending. Configurable time windows - weekly, monthly, quarterly - for tracking returns over time. See how revenue shifts across your portfolio.&nbsp;CSV export for accounting teams. Download earnings and invoice history formatted for revenue recognition, accounts receivable, and reconciliation workflows. One file, ready to use.&nbsp;<h2>Comparison</h2>

<h2>How to Get Started</h2>&nbsp;If you're already a Hydra AI Factory partner, the Monetization Dashboard is currently available in Private Beta. Reach out to your account manager for early access - your revenue, utilization, and invoicing data will be there with no setup required and no configuration needed.&nbsp;New to Hydra? Deploy your AI Factory with full financial visibility from day one. Our team can walk you through the dashboard as part of onboarding.&nbsp;<h2>Start Here</h2>&nbsp;Your hardware is working. Now see exactly what it earns.&nbsp;<a href="https://brokkr.hydrahost.com/dcim/dashboard">Open your Monetization Dashboard</a> if you're an existing partner.&nbsp;<a href="https://hydrahost.com/">Deploy GPUs on Hydra</a> with full revenue visibility if you're evaluating where to place your next investment.

Track GPU revenue, utilization by chip type, and invoice status in a single dashboard. Hourly data refresh, CSV export, and full financial transparency.

<h2>Real Time Monitoring</h2>&nbsp;A renter opens a ticket: training jobs are running 20% slower than expected. Your team scrambles. Was the server tested before handoff? You check a spreadsheet. Is the interconnect healthy? You SSH into a monitoring box at one of three data center facilities. By the time you have answers, the renter is already asking about their contract terms.

The Problem AI Factory operators running hundreds of GPU servers across multiple data center facilities face two blind spots that directly affect revenue. &nbsp; Blind Spot #1: Proving Quality. When a server is handed off to a customer, can you prove it was tested? That the GPUs hit their rated throughput? That the interconnect performed? Most teams track this in spreadsheets or manual QA checklists - if they track it at all. Some track it in their heads. When a renter reports an issue, there's no record to fall back on. &nbsp; Blind Spot #2: Visibility. Each data center facility has its own management network, its own monitoring setup, its own way of surfacing hardware health. Teams stitch tools together across sites - a Grafana instance here, a custom script there, a shared Slack channel for alerts. Nothing is unified. Nothing gives you a single view of the whole fleet. &nbsp; These aren't just operational headaches. Customers running production AI workloads stay with operators who can demonstrate consistent hardware quality. When you can't prove the server was healthy at handoff, and you can't see what's happening across your fleet in real time, you lose the renters who matter most. Fleet observability is a revenue retention concern.&nbsp;Customer Value Hydra's Fleet Observability gives AI Factories two things they've been missing: validated proof that servers were tested before handoff, and real-time visibility across the entire fleet from one place. &nbsp; For operators, the day looks different. When a renter reports degraded performance, you pull up the server's test history and show exactly what was validated at handoff - no scrambling, no guesswork. Instead of logging into three different monitoring setups to understand fleet health, one dashboard covers all of it. Servers that fail testing are held back from inventory before they reach a customer, reducing the risk of handing off hardware that isn't ready. &nbsp; For your enterprise AI customers, the value is trust. We built quality and monitoring around workload security and privacy - their compute environment stays untouched during the rental. For investors and lenders, auditable test records per server satisfy reporting requirements without custom builds.&nbsp;The SolutionHydra Fleet Observability gives operators two capabilities in one platform: Server Test History that validates every server before it reaches a customer, and Real-Time Monitoring that keeps the entire fleet visible after deployment.

Hardware metrics are exposed via Prometheus-compatible endpoints on each server: chassis power, temperatures, fans, connectivity, and more. Network monitoring tracks link state and reachability across all nodes regardless of location. A pre-built Grafana dashboard with 40+ panels across 7 categories gives operators a production-ready view with up to 5-second refresh - importable in minutes, compatible with all major OEMs including Dell, HPE, Supermicro, Lenovo, and more. &nbsp; Because the data is native Prometheus, operators can configure alerting using Grafana's built-in alerting engine - setting thresholds for temperature, power, connectivity, or any other metric and routing to PagerDuty, Slack, email, or any webhook. One monitoring layer spans every cluster we manage for you - one view, regardless of data center facility or geography.

All test runs are stored. Operators can pull up any server and see its complete history from onboarding through each subsequent handoff - an auditable quality record for the entire fleet.&nbsp;<h2>Real-Time Monitoring</h2>Real-time monitoring operates on the management plane - BMC and network-level signals that provide hardware health visibility without any access to the customer's compute environment.

&nbsp;<h2>Privacy and Security by Design</h2>Hydra honors the privacy and security required by today's major AI Platforms. We do not perform OS-level GPU monitoring while a server is rented. The monitoring boundary is the management plane - never the compute plane. &nbsp; We balance observability with the security boundaries enterprise AI customers require. Server quality is proven before handoff through the testing pipeline. During the rental, customers who want to verify server health use the Diagnostics CLI - a self-service toolkit for running GPU burn-in, NCCL benchmarks, and hardware checks on their own terms.&nbsp;<h2>Proof Points</h2>&nbsp;<ul><li>Automated quality gate - Servers that fail GPU burn-in or NCCL testing are automatically held back from inventory and surfaced for operator review. No manual tracking, no spreadsheets, no trying to remember which node had which issue.</li><li>Full test history per server - Every test run stored and viewable over the server's entire lifecycle. Pull up any server and see its complete record from onboarding through every handoff.</li><li>40+ monitoring panels, 7 categories - System status, connectivity, power, temperature, fans, and more - in a single pre-built Grafana dashboard. Ready to import in minutes.</li><li>Up to 5-second metrics refresh - Real-time BMC and network data across your entire fleet. Default 30-minute window with configurable range.</li><li>Native Prometheus - Standard endpoints. No custom exporters or agents required. Build any custom dashboard, fleet-level rollup, or automated query on top of Hydra's data.</li><li>Quality and monitoring built around workload security and privacy - Management-plane monitoring during active rental. Customers verify server health independently with the Diagnostics CLI. The security bar enterprise AI customers demand - proven, not promised.</li></ul>&nbsp;<h2>Hydra Fleet Observability vs. the Alternatives</h2>

Hydra Fleet Observability vs. the Alternatives table

<h4>CURRENTLY IN PRIVATE BETA.</h4><h2>How to get Started</h2>&nbsp;When participating, log into your Hydra dashboard and review your fleet's server test history - every server that's been through onboarding or pre-handoff validation is already there. Import the monitoring dashboard and connect your Prometheus instance to start seeing real-time fleet health across all your clusters.  Our infrastructure team is available to answer any questions.&nbsp;<a href="https://brokkr.hydrahost.com/dcim/test-runs">View Server Test Results</a> | <a href="https://brokkr.hydrahost.com/dcim/monitoring">View Fleet Monitoring Dashboard</a>

Fleet observability for AI Factories - server quality gates that increase revenue retention, plus real-time monitoring across every cluster and location.

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