Linux server monitoring that belongs with the rest of your fleet
Ubuntu at a client’s house, a Debian web host, a Rocky box in the closet — in the same Watchman Monitoring dashboard as Mac, Windows, and ChromeOS. A lightweight, read-only Linux agent. Not a second monitoring product to learn.
Native Linux Checks
Know when a volume is filling up, SSH is under attack, or Apache, MySQL, or Kerio has stopped.
Same dashboard, every platform
Linux hosts sit next to Mac, Windows, and ChromeOS. One workflow, one set of alerts, one client report.
Simple to install and keep current
A single compiled agent with nothing extra to install on the machine. Add Linux hosts from your Watchman Monitoring dashboard, then keep the agent updated the same way you update other Linux software.
What we monitor on Linux
The checks MSPs need as Ubuntu shows up on home machines and Linux servers sit beside the rest of the fleet.
Storage & Volumes
Root volume capacity and mounted volume status before a full disk takes a machine down.
Memory
Installed RAM reported with the rest of the host inventory.
Operating system
Distro and version in the same computer record as your Mac and Windows fleet.
Reboots
Last reboot time, so unexpected restarts are visible without logging in.
Failed SSH logins
Brute-force noise on hosts that have SSH exposed.
Fail2ban
Whether the jail is running, not just whether the package is installed.
Apache
Service status for the web stack you are expected to keep up.
MySQL / MariaDB
Service status for the database next to it.
Kerio Connect Server
Service and mailstore health on shops that run Kerio.
Network & address
Interface status and primary internal IPv4, useful when a host moves or drops off the LAN.
Agent health
The monitoring agent reports on itself, same idea as Mac and Windows.
Beacon reporting
Heartbeat / uptime when it is enabled for your account, same as other platforms.
Supported Linux distributions
If it is a current Ubuntu desktop, a Debian box, or a RHEL-family server, Watchman Monitoring can monitor it. Add the host from your dashboard. If you run something less common, contact us and we can tell you whether it is a fit.
- Intel/AMD and ARM — 64-bit on both. Cloud ARM, Raspberry Pi, and ordinary PCs are all in scope.
- Ubuntu — including 22.04 and 24.04 LTS, and the Ubuntu-based desktops showing up in residential accounts
- Debian
- RHEL family — Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and Amazon Linux
