Changelog

The first public release of PulseOps Monitor. Built from the ground up as a practical, affordable alternative to enterprise monitoring tools for Windows environments.

🆕 Core Monitoring

• Real-time CPU, memory and disk monitoring via WMI for all Windows servers
• Per-server configurable alert thresholds
• Ping reachability checks with Online/Offline/Warning status
• Auto-refresh with configurable interval (minimum 1 minute)
• Live dashboard with colour-coded status tiles and server grid
• Server uptime display and operating system detection

🆕 Windows Service Monitoring

• Monitor any Windows service on any server
• Auto-restart stopped services with configurable rate limiting
• Auto-restart logging with success/failure tracking
• Per-service alert suppression during auto-restart

🆕 SQL Server Monitoring Professional+

• Monitor database states, sizes and backup age
• Long-running query detection with configurable threshold
• Blocking chain detection and logging
• Failed SQL Agent job alerts
• Connection count monitoring and Page Life Expectancy alerts
• Support for multiple SQL instances per server

🆕 Advanced Monitoring Professional+

• SSL/TLS certificate expiry monitoring — alert 30 days before expiry
• TCP port monitoring for any host:port
• HTTP/HTTPS URL monitoring with content verification
• Disk trend analysis — predicts drive fill date from daily growth rate
• Escalation rules — auto-escalate unacknowledged alerts
• Service auto-restart configuration per service

🆕 Patch Status Professional+

• WMI-based Windows Update inventory for all servers
• Pending update counts (total, critical, security)
• Days since last patch and reboot-pending detection
• Alerts for critical updates pending, stale servers and reboot required

🆕 Alerting

• HTML email alerts via any SMTP server
• Microsoft Teams Adaptive Card notifications
• Slack Block Kit message notifications
• Per-server custom alert recipients
• Alert deduplication — suppresses repeat alerts within 30 minutes
• Alert history with acknowledge functionality
• Maintenance windows — one-off or recurring, per-server or global

🆕 Reports

• Uptime reports — calculate uptime % from monitoring history
• SLA reports with MTTR, MTBF, incident count and longest outage (Professional+)
• Professional HTML report export with cover page and summary tiles
• CSV export for all reports and monitoring history
• Scheduled report delivery via email, Teams and Slack
• Daily, weekly, monthly and custom schedule options

🆕 Infrastructure

• Windows Service mode for 24/7 monitoring without a logged-in user
• All data stored in your own SQL Server — no cloud dependency
• Server Lists for grouping servers in reports
• Event Log monitoring rules (Enterprise)
• Process monitoring (Enterprise)
• NSIS-based installer with optional service installation
• HMAC-SHA256 offline licence key system
• 30-day trial with full Professional features on up to 5 servers
• Built-in update checker