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Purpose-built for MSPs and mid-market NetOps teams in the AI-era. Everything you need to 10x productivity today.

Dashboard Creation with Probe Validation
Create an observation centre dashboard from Zabbix connector data and keep the widgets tied to live site state.

The dashboard is ready. I grouped the sites by incident pressure, mapped Zabbix health into operator-friendly panels, and added drill-down cards for packet loss, device status, and open handoffs.

Can you keep the filters live as alerts change?

Yes. The dashboard filters are bound to connector state, so severity, site, and device-type views update as Zabbix items move between warning, high, and recovered states.

Add a handoff view for the operator taking over.

I added a handoff panel with active incidents, last refresh time, affected services, and the two sites with unresolved packet-loss signals.

0.3%420 MB192.168.1.170

a Support engineer uses Altostrat Studio to automatically start investigating the cause in the background while she is on a call with the customer, a ticket has already been issued to Zendesk and has been pre-filled with all the information required

Support engineer+

a Junior network engineer required some senior assistance from his lead to verify some changes he wanted to apply to a host, the lead was able to transcribe the session for future reference right from their huddle chat in Slack.

Junior network engineerNetwork lead+

a lead of a distributed team gets an update at 8am about exactly what's happened while he was asleep.

Distributed team lead+

a network operations lead gets summarised updates on what he needs to prioritise after lunch.

Network operations lead+

an observation centre monitors sites with a dashboard that was entirely generated from AI and connector data.

Observation centre leadNOC operatorNetwork engineer+
Nandos
Motus Corporation
Burger King
SPAR
Takealot
Ster Kinekor

Running in NOCs, MSPs, and on-call rotations around the world.

A network map that refuses to lie.

Studio walks LLDP, CDP, and ARP continuously, so your topology updates itself while you work. No more 2019 Visio in a SharePoint folder, no more diagrams that only match reality on the day they were drawn. Open Studio, see the network as it is right now.

Topology discovery

Credentials that never leave the keychain.

Secrets stay in the OS keychain and the AWS KMS-backed vault, injected just-in-time at connect. They never pass through chat, never land in a ticket, never ride along in an LLM prompt. FIPS 140-2 encryption, per-org customer-managed keys, full audit trail on every fetch.

Zabbix connector setup

An AI that knows your network, not just its manual.

Studio builds a Graph RAG index of your devices, configs, sessions, runbooks, and change history — searchable offline, grounded in your data. When you ask why that ACL is there, the answer cites the ticket from 2021 where someone added it. The copilot reads across Cisco IOS, NX-OS, Junos, FortiOS, RouterOS and more, so multi-vendor context is one question, not four CLIs.

Terminal
set interfaces ge-0/0/0 unit 0 family inet address 10.0.1.2/30
set interfaces ge-0/0/1 unit 0 family inet address 192.168.20.1/24
set interfaces lo0 unit 0 family inet address 10.255.0.2/32
set protocols ospf area 0.0.0.0 interface ge-0/0/0.0
set protocols ospf area 0.0.0.0 interface lo0.0 passive
set protocols bgp group IBGP type internal
set protocols bgp group IBGP local-address 10.255.0.2
set protocols bgp group IBGP neighbor 10.255.0.1
set policy-options policy-statement EXPORT-CONNECTED from protocol direct
set policy-options policy-statement EXPORT-CONNECTED then accept
set routing-instances CUST-B instance-type vrf
set routing-instances CUST-B interface ge-0/0/1.0
set routing-instances CUST-B route-distinguisher 65000:100
set routing-instances CUST-B vrf-target target:65000:100

Two engineers in the same SSH session, cursors and all.

Drop a teammate into your live session, see their cursor, hand off the keyboard, talk it through on a Chime call with live transcription. When the senior engineer leaves, the session, the recording, and the reasoning stay in the knowledge base — so the network doesn't leave with them.

Terminal
hostname PE-ROUTER-01
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
description Uplink to Core-SW1
ip address 10.0.1.1 255.255.255.252
mpls ip
no shutdown
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
description Customer-A CE Link
ip vrf forwarding CUST-A
ip address 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0
no shutdown
!
router bgp 65000
bgp log-neighbor-changes
neighbor 10.0.2.1 remote-as 65000
neighbor 10.0.2.1 update-source Loopback0
!
address-family vpnv4
neighbor 10.0.2.1 activate
neighbor 10.0.2.1 send-community extended

Clicks through web and desktop apps, so you don't have to.

When the only interface is a vendor portal, legacy NMS, or thick-client GUI, Studio can drive it like a remote operator: see the screen, move the mouse, click, type, and capture annotated evidence.

Yealink T46U reboot

Made for always-on automation your way.

With Procedures, Studio works when you want it to, you can schedule something every morning at 8am, run it with a global keyboard shortcut, when a SIP call comes in or when you open your CRM app. Our flexible Procedure triggers make it possible.

Right-click a chat to generate a workflow

From engineers who've stopped tab-hunting.

From a financial perspective, Altostrat’s solution has helped us consolidate our WAN architecture, optimize bandwidth usage, and reduce dependency on expensive MPLS links, without compromising on performance. These efficiencies have contributed meaningfully to lower total cost of ownership.

Magnus van der Merwe
Magnus van der MerweIT Manager @ Barko Financial Services

Altostrat provides a robust cloud-based solution that allows us to monitor and manage our fleet of MikroTik routers efficiently and securely. Their platform is feature rich, stable, and easy to work with, offering enhancements that significantly extend the native capabilities of MikroTik devices.

Hans  van Vreden
Hans van VredenHead of Technology @ Infoprotect (Pty) Ltd

We confidently recommend Altostrat as a top-tier provider of SDN solutions. Their technology has enabled us to deliver superior service, security, and uptime to our customers.

Sean Behr
Sean BehrOwner @ PCWIZARD Technologies

Put it on your laptop today.

Altostrat Studio is free to download for Mac and Windows. Connect to one device, ask the copilot something hard, and decide for yourself. No demo required.

Free to start. No credit card. Your configs never leave your tenant.

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Legacy NetOps tooling wasn't built for the AI era.

Legacy NetOps toolingAltostrat Studio
Hand-drawn Visio diagrams that are stale the day after they're saved

Live LLDP, CDP, and ARP discovery that updates itself while you work

A wall of PuTTY tabs and tribal knowledge in a wiki no one maintains

An AI copilot that reads your configs, sessions, and runbooks before it suggests anything

A different tool and mental model for Cisco, Junos, FortiOS, and RouterOS

One console across SSH, Telnet, Serial, and RDP - every major vendor

Manual commands typed straight onto production gear

Read-only by default; every state-changing diff needs your sign-off

Spreadsheets of passwords and shared logins

OS keychain plus a FIPS 140-2 vault, injected just-in-time, never shared with chat

Screen-sharing a terminal on a P1 call, with nothing captured afterward

Live cursor presence in one SSH session, transcribed and saved to your knowledge base

Swivel-chair between vendor portals by hand

Browser automation drives WebFig, Meraki, and iDRAC with an annotated evidence trail

The network walks out the door when a senior engineer resigns

Every session, reasoning, and fix stays searchable for the whole team

FAQ

Studio drafts configs, builds runbooks from chat, walks web UIs, documents sessions, and keeps the topology current. It does not push a change to a device until you approve the diff. The copilot is read-only by default. You turn on write mode per session, per device, or never.

Full terminal support for anything that speaks SSH, Telnet, Serial, or RDP — so in practice every major vendor. The copilot has deep context for Cisco IOS, NX-OS, IOS-XR, Junos, FortiOS, PAN-OS, RouterOS, ArubaOS, and the usual Linux network stacks. If your gear has a CLI or a web UI, Studio can sit in front of it.

Studio drives them in a sandboxed browser. The copilot clicks, reads, and screenshots each step, then hands you an annotated trail of what it did. You review the evidence before anything ships. The MikroTik WebFig, the Meraki dashboard, the old Dell iDRAC — all fair game.

In your OS keychain, synced to an encrypted vault backed by AWS KMS with per-org customer-managed keys. Studio injects them at connect time, not in chat and not in LLM prompts. Every fetch is audited. FIPS 140-2. If a teammate needs access, you grant it to a person, not to a shared password.

Yes — real-time cursor presence in the same SSH session, a Chime call, live transcription, and an asciicast recording that lands in your knowledge base when you're done. The session, the reasoning, and the fix all stay searchable. That's how you stop losing the network when a senior engineer resigns.

One engineer downloads Studio on their laptop tonight. They connect to a few devices, ask the copilot something hard, and use it for one on-call shift. If it earns its seat, you invite the team, move credentials in, and retire whatever you're currently swivel-chairing between. Most MSPs go from "one curious engineer" to "team standard" in under three weeks. No forklift, no migration project.