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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…
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…
Today’s dashboard update connects Watchman Monitoring to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. Once a connection is in place, the Macs you already monitor pick up their purchase history, AppleCare coverage, and MDM enrollment statedirectly from Apple. No agent update is required, and nothing is installed on the Macs. This is a dashboard feature…
Watchman Monitoring has released agent version 7.2.1.108 for macOS, with automatic rollout to all computers beginning Tuesday, August 11, 2026. Bug Fixes Plugins Failing on macOS 10.13 and 10.14 After the 7.2.1.105 rollout, Macs running High Sierra and Mojave stopped reporting correctly. The Time Machine Exclusions plugin generated a traceback, Backblaze reporting went missing, and…
Hey folks! We’re happy to announce that we’ve just released a huge update to the Webhooks feature in Watchman Monitoring. Here’s what’s changed: Setting up an endpoint New “All events” firehose option. When you create an endpoint, it now defaults to receiving all events instead of making you hand-pick each one. Two-mode event selector. You choose between All events or Specific events, with validation so you can’t save a broken configuration, plus warning callouts (for Beacon-related events) when relevant. Refreshed event…
We are excited to announce that Mac Client version 7.2.1.105 will be rolling out next Tuesday (August 4, 2026). In 7.2.1.105 we have updated the copy of Python that ships inside the Watchman Monitoring Mac agent, moving it from 3.9 to the newest stable release, 3.13. Why we did this The agent carries its own…
We’ve shipped a dashboard update that makes Duplicate Computers a lot less noisy for Windows and Linux agents. For a while, users have been reporting machines that showed up as duplicates even though they were clearly different devices: different serial numbers, different sites, sometimes even different hardware. In most of those cases the dashboard was matching…
We released Linux Agent 4.0.11 today. This update brings Kerio Connect Server monitoring to the new Linux agent, and fixes a quiet but important problem with how expirations reported by Linux plugins were being saved. Here’s what it does for Kerio Connect Server: Detects Kerio on its own by looking for the license file at `/opt/kerio/mailserver/`. On…
We’re releasing Linux Agent 4.0.9 today. This is a focused follow-up to 4.0.7 with two reliability fixes we’ve seen on real customer Linux hosts. Upgrade through your normal package workflow: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install –only-upgrade monitoringclient # Debian/Ubuntu sudo dnf upgrade monitoringclient # RHEL family After upgrading, monitoringclient version should report 4.0.9. Dashboard group changes now stick Some Linux…
We’re releasing Linux Agent 4.0.7 today. Since our last public Linux update (4.0.2), we’ve shipped several focused improvements across enrollment, hardware reporting, security monitoring, and group synchronization based on user feedback. This post covers everything in 4.0.3 through 4.0.7 so you have one place to see what’s new. Enrollment bug fix We fixed a bug…
As we’ve shared previously, we’ve spent the last several months on a major upgrade to the infrastructure that runs Watchman Monitoring. This is a big investment in the future of the platform: it lets us ship updates, new features, and bug fixes far faster than before. As with any migration of this size, it also…
We are pleased to announce a major milestone for Linux monitoring: a complete rewrite of the Watchman Monitoring Linux agent. Version 4.0.2 replaces the legacy Python 2 agent, which is retired and will no longer be receiving updates. The new agent is available now to all subscribers. Install it from your dashboard under Installers → Linux. Overview The new Linux agent is…
Watchman Monitoring is happy to announce the release of agent 7.1.7.712 for macOS. It will automatically roll out to all Computers next Tuesday, June 2 2026. Bug Fixes CrashPlan: more reliable destination discovery For years, the CrashPlan plugin has discovered configured destinations by parsing the DESTINATIONS section of CrashPlan’s app.log. That format has shifted repeatedly…
Watchman Monitoring is happy to announce the release of agent 7.1.7.706 for macOS. Munki Improvements Munki v7 Support – The Munki plugin now supports Munki v7 and will properly display it in the Dashboard. Bug Fix – Munki plugin no longer crashes when ManagedInstallReport.plist records EndTime as a date. Affected hosted could go silent on Munki…
We are happy to announce that we have upgraded our Zendesk integration. We have added support for Oauth client based authentication and behind-the-scene changes to how tickets are updated. If you use Watchman Monitoring’s Zendesk integration , here’s what’s changing and what you should do about it. Connect with with OAuth The biggest change is…
Rolling out to all subscribers starting Tuesday, May 5, 2026 (1400 UTC / 9:00 AM Central) Auto-update connectivity fix Earlier this year our load balancer infrastructure dropped support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in line with current security standards. The Monitoring Client’s auto-updater (a third-party component compiled against .NET 4.0) defaulted to those older protocols…
Watchman Monitoring is happy to announce the release of agent 7.1.6.101 for macOS. Apple A Series Support Apple A18 / A18 Pro / A19 / A19 Pro — added processor-speed and unified-memory entries (A18: 4.04 GHz / 7500 MHz, A18 Pro: 4.04 GHz / 8533 MHz, A19: 4.26 GHz / 8533 MHz, A19 Pro: 4.26 GHz…
We have two major features to announce today. Both ChromeOS monitoring and HaloPSA have been running in early access for the past few months, and we’re now making them available to all Watchman Monitoring customers. ChromeOS Monitoring Back in September we sent out a survey asking what Watchman Monitoring users wanted us to build. ChromeOS…
We’re excited to announce the release of Outgoing Webhooks—a feature that lets you integrate Watchman Monitoring with the tools your team already uses. This has been one of our most-requested features, and we’re thrilled to finally deliver it. Real-Time Notifications Where You Need Them Outgoing Webhooks send real-time notifications when events occur in your Watchman…
Reliable, Stable, and Here for the Long Term Watchman Monitoring has always been built on trust and dependability, and we intend to carry that forward. We are not chasing trends. We are focused on making Watchman Monitoring a tool you can rely on for years. Since we acquired Watchman Monitoring, we have focused on getting…