Servers and connections
Registering a server, testing the connection, setting restricted paths and choosing whether elevated access is allowed.
Docs
Set up in about ten minutes
There is no pipeline to migrate and no agent to roll out. You install one desktop app, point it at a server you already have access to, and start asking.
Getting started
Five steps, once
After this, everything else happens in conversation.
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Install the desktop app
It runs on Windows, on your own machine. Nothing is installed on your servers.
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Sign in and activate
One activation per workstation. Your licence is tied to the machine, so a lost laptop does not cost you a seat.
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Add your first server
Host, user and the SSH key you already use. Test Connection detects the operating system and the interpreters available on that machine.
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Point it at a project
Give it a folder or a repository. It reads the project to work out how it is built and what it needs, then tells you what it found.
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Ask it something real
Not a hello. Ask about the container that keeps restarting, or the build that will not start. That is the fastest way to know whether it is useful.
Requirements
What you need before you start
Short list, and most teams already have all of it.
Your machine
Windows 10 or later. About 400 MB of disk. macOS builds are available on request.
Your servers
SSH access with a user you control. Linux or Windows. No agent to install and no port to open.
Network
Outbound HTTPS from your machine for model calls and licence checks. Your servers need nothing extra.
Permissions
Start with a normal user. Elevated access is off by default and you turn it on per server only if you want it.
In the app
Reference topics
Full documentation ships inside the app, next to the thing it describes, so it stays current with the version you are running. Here is what it covers.
Scripts
Running the scripts you already have, streaming their output, stopping a runaway job, and keeping a version history when the agent edits one.
Projects
Letting it read a project so it understands the build, the deploy script and the services that belong together.
Databases
Registering a connection, running read-only checks, and how credentials are encrypted at rest.
Credits and usage
Where your allowance goes, the day-by-day breakdown, and how to top up.
The audit log
What is recorded, where it lives, and how to undo a change that has already been applied.
By technology
Guides for your stack
Docker, without memorising the flags
Inspect containers, read logs, check stats, restart services and run Compose stacks, just by describing what you want.
Read more →Your reverse proxy, explained and fixed
Test configs before they go live, read the right log, and reload safely, on nginx, IIS or Tomcat.
Read more →Ship it, and know what shipped
Run your existing deploy scripts, watch the output live, and get a straight answer about whether it worked.
Read more →Ask your database what is wrong
Read-only checks and queries over your existing SSH connection, with credentials encrypted at rest.
Read more →Wildcard HTTPS, sorted in one step
Issue trusted, auto-renewing certificates, wildcards included, and get the paths handed straight back.
Read more →Your AWS account, in plain English
Read EC2, S3, Elastic IPs and EBS, spot what is quietly costing you money, and make changes only after you approve them.
Read more →Ask Jenkins what went wrong
Read jobs, builds, the queue and console logs, find out why a build failed, and trigger or stop builds with your approval.
Read more →It runs on your machine too
Build, run and fix projects on your own computer, including installing the runtime the project needs.
Read more →A real file editor for your Linux servers, no nano required
Browse your Linux servers as a file tree and edit files in a real editor with syntax highlighting, find and replace and search across the whole box. Over the SSH access you already have, with nothing installed on the server.
Read more →Stuck on something?
Setup questions reach a person who has actually used this on production servers, not a ticket queue.