Guides
Guides
Short, task-focused walkthroughs with screenshots. The Help button in the app opens the guide for the screen you're on.
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Getting started
From importing the collector VM to a secured, monitored network with alerts, in about 30 minutes.
6 min read
Users, roles and access control
Give each person exactly the devices they look after: a printer technician sees printers, a site lead sees their site.
5 min read · Admins
Alerts that reach the right people
Route alerts by device type and site to email, Teams, Slack or any webhook, without alert storms.
5 min read · Admins
Maintenance windows and acknowledgements
Keep planned work quiet and show the team who is handling what.
3 min read
Reports and the report builder
Ready-made availability, Windows and health reports, plus your own branded reports built from sections, then printed, downloaded or emailed.
5 min read · IT teams and MSPs
Discovery
Find routers, switches, access points, printers, servers, phones and endpoints on every VLAN and site.
4 min read
Dashboards
The health score, the built-in templates and how to build your own.
3 min read
Devices
Find any device quickly by type, site or name, and see its history.
2 min read
Sites
Tell Monitaria where your offices, clinics and warehouses are, so every device is at the right site.
3 min read · Admins
Sensors and outside services
Add websites, certificates, DNS records and ports; tune thresholds without restarts.
3 min read
API, tokens and webhooks
Read status, events and reports with scoped, read-only tokens, browse the OpenAPI reference, and receive signed webhooks for every event.
5 min read · Admins and integrators
HTTPS certificate
Replace the appliance's self-signed certificate with one from your CA.
2 min read · Admins
Computers, servers and device details
CPU, memory, disks and services for Windows and Linux machines, and a full inventory for every device.
5 min read · Admins
Traffic analysis with NetFlow and IPFIX
See who uses the bandwidth: top talkers, conversations and applications from your routers and firewalls.
5 min read · Admins
Installing and renewing your license
How licensing works, what is counted, and what happens at renewal time.
3 min read · Admins
Linking collectors to the hub
See every site and customer on one page: link each collector to the hub with a site ID and secret. Collectors push status outbound only.
3 min read · Admins
Single sign-on and SCIM provisioning
Let your team sign in with Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace or another identity provider, and let SCIM add and remove their accounts.
7 min read · Admins
High availability with a standby collector
Pair two collectors: if the primary stops, the standby takes over monitoring, receiving and alerting in about 30 seconds, then hands back.
5 min read · Admins
Archiving and deleting devices
Hide devices that are gone but keep their history, restore them later, or delete them for good, and clean up endpoints that left.
4 min read · Admins
Secure SNMP with SNMPv3
Replace clear-text community strings with signed, encrypted SNMPv3 for sensors, discovery, device details, the map, port monitoring and interface names.
5 min read · Admins
Syslog and SNMP traps
Receive syslog and SNMP traps from your network gear, search them in Logs, and turn the messages that matter into problems and alerts.
6 min read · Admins
sFlow traffic and port counters
Let switches that send sFlow fill the Traffic tab, and see how busy every port is, with errors, discards and duplex problems.
4 min read · Admins
Switch and router ports
See how busy every switch and router port is, which ports have errors or went down, and how many each switch has left, read over SNMP.
5 min read · Admins
Cloud-managed networks
Monitor Cisco Meraki, Ubiquiti UniFi, Fortinet FortiGate and Aruba Central devices through the vendors' own APIs when SNMP isn't available.
6 min read · Admins and MSPs
Configuration backup
Back up router, switch and firewall configurations over SSH, see what changed between versions, and get warned about changes and failed backups.
5 min read · Admins
PagerDuty and ticketing integrations
Problems open, update and close tickets in ConnectWise PSA, Autotask, HaloPSA, ServiceNow or Jira, and page on-call through PagerDuty.
6 min read · Admins and MSPs
Documentation sync with IT Glue and Hudu
Keep one IT Glue configuration or Hudu asset per monitored device up to date, matched by serial, MAC or name, with a preview before anything changes.
5 min read · MSPs and admins
Problem explanations and AI assistants
Plain-words explanations of problems, backed by numbered evidence, with optional Claude answers and read-only MCP access for AI assistants.
5 min read · Everyone; admins set it up
Incidents: one alert per outage
Problems that start together become one incident, with the probable cause first and, if you choose, one alert instead of one per sensor.
6 min read · Admins and operators
Moving from another monitoring tool
Bring devices and sensors across from your old monitoring tool: see what will be created, tick what you want, and create it all in one step.
5 min read · Admins
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