Infrastructure monitoring
Every server.
Every switch. Watched.
Arqos watches your servers and network gear and speaks up only when something needs you. Healthy machines stay quiet. Problems rise to the top.
outbound-only / no open ports / no remote execution — by design
Monitoring was supposed to help.
It became two problems.
The wall of data nobody reads
Traditional tools answer every question except the one that matters: is anything wrong right now? Forty charts per server, and the warning that counts is buried on page six. When a tool demands reading, people stop reading — and problems hide in plain sight.
The watcher became the way in
Most monitoring tools can also control the machines they watch — remote commands, remote updates, remote everything. That made them the single most valuable target in the building. In 2021, attackers compromised one such tool (Kaseya) and used its own update channel to lock up roughly 1,500 businesses in a single afternoon. Insurers and lawyers noticed. So did we.
Arqos is the opposite, on purpose
The Arqos agent has no ability to run anything on your machines — not a disabled feature, the capability simply does not exist in the software. And the dashboard is built so you don't have to study it: quiet means healthy, and anything that needs attention is already at the top.
[•]the product watches so you don't read.
01
Nothing to open
Every report leaves your network the same way your browser does — encrypted, outbound, port 443. No VPN, no firewall changes, no new doors for an attacker to find.
02
Switches too
Network gear can't run software. One small probe on any machine checks your switches, routers, and storage over the local network and relays their health out.
03
It can only watch
The agent reads health numbers — CPU, memory, disk, uptime — and sends them. There is no command channel. Even if our cloud were breached, an attacker gets graphs, not your network.
Installed before your coffee brews
One command, one token. The agent enrolls itself, gets its keys, and starts reporting in under a minute.
$ arqos-agent enroll --token et_4f29…
[•] enrolled as device dc-01
$ arqos-agent run
[•] report sent (cpu 11.2%, mem 31.0%, 2 disks)
For MSPs
Built by an MSP that got tired of pricing surprises.
Simple, flat, per device
One number per device per month. No modules, no tiers-of-tiers, no surprise line items at renewal. Pilot pricing shared during early access.
Clients, sites, devices
Multi-tenant from day one: every client is its own org, every location its own site. Onboard a new client site without touching their firewall.
A security story you can sell
When a prospect's insurer asks about your remote-management risk, “our monitoring agent physically can't execute commands” is an answer that closes.
On the roadmap
White-label dashboards under your brand, and an alert-to-ticket loop that opens and closes tickets in your PSA automatically.
Why Arqos exists
I run ThinkOpen, a managed IT and security firm in Los Angeles. Our clients' insurers and lawyers kept asking the same question: what can your management tools doto the network if they're compromised? For every tool we evaluated, the honest answer was “everything.” Meanwhile my engineers were drowning in dashboards built to impress in demos, not to be read at 7 a.m. I wanted monitoring that a lawyer could love and an engineer could ignore until it mattered. Nobody sold it. So we built it, ran it on our own fleet first, and called it Arqos.
— Luis Ramos, founder · ThinkOpen Inc., Los Angeles
Fair questions.
The objections we hear from owners, managers, and the IT teams who advise them — answered plainly.
[•] something we missed? ask us directly
What data leaves my network?
Health numbers, and only health numbers: CPU, memory, and disk usage, network throughput, uptime, the device's name and operating system version, and response times for your network gear. No file contents, no documents, no keystrokes, no screenshots — the agent has no code to collect them.
Will it fight my antivirus or EDR?
No. The agent reads the same health counters your Task Manager does and doesn't hook into other software, so there's nothing for your security tools to object to. Every release is signed and ships with a published checksum, so your security team can verify exactly what's running and allowlist it once.
What happens if Arqos itself gets breached?
The honest worst case: an attacker sees your machines' health numbers. That's it. There is no command channel to hijack and no path from our cloud into your network — the agent only ever talks outward. Compare that with the worst case of a traditional remote-management tool, which is control of every machine it touches.
How long does rollout take?
About 60 seconds per server — one command, no reboot, no firewall tickets, no maintenance window. A typical small fleet is fully reporting the same afternoon. Switches and routers need nothing installed at all; one probe machine watches them.
What does it run on?
Windows and Windows Server, Linux, and macOS — one small program, about 9 MB. Switches, routers, firewalls, and storage devices are monitored over your local network by the probe, so they don't need to run anything.
See your whole fleet by this afternoon.
Early access is open to a small number of MSPs and IT teams.