OverWatcher
A rust-streaked steel signal tower on a sea cliff at blue hour, its lamp lit.

See the
whole watch.
Know what
changed.

Monitoring, syslog and detections for every client you look after, on one screen, with the last hour in plain view.

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Critical
0
High
1
Acknowledged
0

Illustrative

Illustrative data, not a live feed. Select a strip to open it.
Machined steel strips stacked in a rack, each with a lit window and a small amber lamp.

One watch across every client.

Each client, gateway and service is one row. Twelve five-minute bins show the worst state in each, so the last hour reads left to right without opening anything. Open a row to drill in, and the rest of the rack stays where you left it.

A hollow bin means the data is missing
It never counts as healthy. Gaps stay on the screen, even when they make it less tidy.
Shape, colour and a word
Every severity has its own symbol and its name beside it, so nothing depends on telling two colours apart.
The screen holds still
Rows stay in order while you work an incident. Data changes inside the layout, and the layout does not move.

Detections that bring their evidence.

Log events are checked against your rules. An alert opens with the rule that fired, the events that matched and the client affected. Each alert keeps the query that produced it, so you can replay the events or capture them into an incident before they age out.

A relief chart of dark contour lines with small clusters of orange and pale blue markers.

Repeated failed sign-ins, then a success

Severity
High
Rule type
Sequence
Evidence
41 failed sign-ins and 1 success from one address in 6 minutes
Scope
One client, one account
Illustrative record.

Each client gets its own plain view.

Give a client a sign-in and they see their services, incidents and service levels in plain language, under your name and accent colour. They see only their own data. Your team keeps the detail.

What your team sees

What your client sees

Service affected

Your internet connection at the head office is down.

We saw it stop responding and we are working on it. You do not need to do anything.

Illustrative: one event, two levels of explanation.
Three signal buoys, far apart on calm open water, seen from above.

A region is only healthy once it has been probed.

Each ingest region shows whether it was deployed, when it last passed a probe and how long ago that was. OverWatcher does not fail its database over between regions.

Configured
Set up for your account. This says nothing about whether it works.
Probed
A check ran against it. The time and source are recorded.
Healthy
The latest probe passed and is recent.
Degraded
It answers, but slowly or only in part.
Unreachable
The latest probe could not reach it.
Not verified
No probe has run. It is never drawn as healthy.

Every change leaves a record.

Sign-ins, rule edits and changes to clients are written to an append-only chain with who did it, what they touched and when. The database hashes each entry into the chain.

A blank open ledger on a steel desk beside a brass compass, a sextant and a lit lamp.
Illustrative audit records
Time (UTC)WhoActionWhat it touched
10:42:07analyst@example.comalert.acknowledgeHead office firewall
10:39:51admin@example.comrule.updateRepeated failed sign-ins
10:31:18admin@example.comsite.createWarehouse
10:30:02analyst@example.comauth.login_mfaanalyst@example.com
Illustrative records.

What's built today

Working now

  • Syslog over TLS with a client certificate per source, and HTTPS log ingest with a token
  • Metrics from an OpenTelemetry agent, with an install config for each asset
  • Service checks over HTTP, TCP, ICMP, DNS and TLS
  • Threshold, sequence, absence and Sigma detection rules, with dry runs and versions
  • Alerts, incidents with evidence export, and escalation over email, Teams, Slack, webhook and SMS
  • Client portals with their own sign-in, service levels and downloadable reports
  • OIDC single sign-on, two-factor sign-in, and client scoping enforced in the database
  • An append-only audit record, legal hold, and client deletion that needs a second administrator
  • Three regions that each run the full stack and replicate to each other, with one writable database leader at a time

Not built, and not claimed

  • SNMP polling and automatic device discovery
  • Connectors for cloud providers
  • A confidence score on detection rules
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