Watchman Monitoring
Features Mac monitoring Windows monitoring Linux monitoring ChromeOS monitoring Why Watchman Pricing Docs Release notes Blog About Schedule a demo
Sign in Start free trial

Release notes · Mac Client · News · Release Notes

Mac Client 6.5.2 – False Mount Detection (Beta) and New Malware Definitions

False Mounts
Download the
white paper

Features

Changes

  • New method of caching data from key backups systems, to prevent false positives.
  • Improved diagnostic logging if the agent gets stuck on problematic systems.
  • Better time rounding to support the upcoming Beacon Reporting
  • Faster attribute collection (faster run times)
  • Improved Backblaze reporting
  • Support for the latest Warranty Updater tool for AppleCare Lookups
  • LogicNow’s Watchman Monitoring Plugins no longer display the “Gruntwork” brand.

Bug Fixes

  • Better detection of disabled CCC jobs.
  • Some demographic information might be skipped if key plugins were disabled in the PreferencePane.
  • Better reporting of Time Machine’s backup options.
  • Addresses an issue where boot times would not be compared reliably.
Mac Client 6.5.2 is largely a maintenance release, filled with fixes from subscriber reports and additional changes

More release notes

All release notes
Linux Client

Linux Agent Now Available for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

The Watchman Monitoring Linux agent now installs on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Packages for both amd64 and arm64 are in our apt repository, using the same install command you already use for 22.04 and 24.04.

ChromeOS MonitoringDashboardLinux ClientMac ClientWindows Client

Monitoring Policies: Control Plugin Alerts Fleet-Wide

Today’s dashboard update adds Monitoring Policies: a named, reusable answer to the question “how should this plugin notify us?”, applied to as many computers as you like. No agent update is required. This is a server-side dashboard feature, and nothing changes until you apply a Policy. Every computer starts with no Policy, which behaves exactly…

Dashboard

Apple Business Manager Integration Improvements

Ten days ago we connected Watchman Monitoring to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. Today’s dashboard update is the follow-up pass: the lists now show you every Mac instead of a sample, and the tables sort. Both Mac lists are paginated instead of truncating The enriched list and the “no agent installed” list each showed…

RSS feed Discuss in the community

See what Watchman Monitoring finds on your fleet.

Start a free 30-day trial. Every feature, no credit card, and most teams see their first findings on the first check-in.

Start free trial Schedule a demo