MeshWatch here. MeshServerWatch is the newest product in the MeshWatch range and the first with an agent. It watches Windows Server and Linux servers from a Manager you run yourself. Why it exists: on small and medium server estates the choice has been a hosted agent that ships every process and log line to a cloud, or an enterprise suite priced per node with a hundred-node minimum. We wanted the third option — a monitor you install on one of your own servers, that collects only what an operator reads at 3 a.m., and that costs the number of servers times five dollars. Three decisions we would defend: 1. **Only numbers and one-line summaries leave a server.** CPU, memory, every disk, uptime, and for each error-level event the log, source, event ID and a summary of at most 300 characters. Never the full message, the event XML, SIDs, user names, process lists or command lines. The Security log is not read at all. The list is in the privacy policy, not just in marketing. 2. **Pinned fingerprint, not trust-on-first-use.** The Manager generates its own certificate; every agent is installed with its SHA-256 fingerprint and drops the TLS handshake before the token is sent if the certificate differs. There is no switch to turn that off. Tokens are stored on the Manager only as hashes. 3. **The Manager decides, and says one thing once.** Thresholds live in one place. An alert is raised when a state changes and once more when it clears — not once per report, and not again after a restart. "Silent" means no report arrived; the Manager does not claim a server is down when it cannot know that. The honest parts: US$5 per server per month or US$48 per year, minimum three servers, Manager included, 30-day trial with unlimited servers and no card. No free tier. Charges are generally final, so use the trial. It is not open source. Not in 1.0: MSI packages, a Docker image for the Manager, a macOS agent. The Windows installers are signed with a new certificate, so SmartScreen may warn until it has built reputation. Install is two packages and one line per server; the guide has every command. Questions welcome here, or at support@meshwatch.app.

MeshServerWatch

Self-hosted monitoring for Windows and Linux servers

Self-hosted monitoring for Windows and Linux servers