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Know the state of your gateway before something breaks.

Pulse runs 52 health and security checks on your Ignition gateway and gives you a report ranked by severity. The module and the report are free. When you want someone watching, Artek's engineers can monitor it for you.

Module and report
Free
every check, on your own gateway
Monitoring by Artek (optional)
$1,500
a month per company, first gateway included
Where it fits

The checks run on your gateway, and the results stay with you.

Pulse reads the gateway's own configuration, logs and status. Nothing leaves the gateway unless an administrator turns sending on.

Where Pulse fits Inside the Ignition gateway, Pulse reads projects and scripts, security settings, devices and databases, and alarms and logs. It runs 52 checks, keeps a Security Guard record of security changes and publishes live health. Results go to a free PDF report, optionally to your own monitoring tools through OpenTelemetry, and optionally to Artek for monitoring over a one-way encrypted connection. Ignition Gateway Projects and scripts views, queries, event scripts Security settings users, keys, permissions Devices and databases connections, Store and Forward Alarms and logs journal, pipelines, gateway log Pulse 52 checks health, security and project quality, ranked by severity Security Guard records each security change and who made it Live health metrics, alarms and tags on the gateway Your report PDF of every finding, free, stays with you Your monitoring tools OpenTelemetry to Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor (free) Artek monitoring optional service: engineers watch, propose a fix for each finding; one-way, encrypted Nothing leaves the gateway unless an administrator turns sending on.
Pulse inside the gateway: the report is yours, the OpenTelemetry export goes to your own tools, and monitoring by Artek is a separate, optional connection.

What it finds

52 checks across security, reliability, project quality and alarms.

Every finding names the resource, says why it matters and carries a severity. A check also says how many items it looked at, so a clean result means something.

Security

  • CriticalWebDev endpoints that accept changes from anyone. A POST, PUT or DELETE endpoint with no login and no role.
  • HighGateway permissions open to any user. The Designer or gateway write permission requires no security level.
  • HighPasswords written into scripts. A password, token or API key typed into a script as text.
  • MediumPlain HTTP allowed. Logins can cross the network unencrypted.

Reliability

  • HighStore and Forward dropping data. Records dropped since the last run. That data is lost.
  • HighDevice not connected. An enabled device that is offline now, so its tags read bad.
  • MediumDatabase connection unstable. A connection that works now but was down twice or more this week.
  • MediumGateway restarts. The gateway started two or more times in the last seven days.

Project quality

  • MediumErrors hidden by except: pass. A handler that swallows every failure and leaves no trace.
  • MediumSQL built by pasting strings. Queries that break on a quote and open the door to SQL injection.
  • MediumFailing scripts. A gateway event script that failed in the last 24 hours.
  • LowDead references. A view, binding or script call that points at something that does not exist.

Alarms and recovery

  • MediumAlarm pipelines that reach no one. A notification block whose roster is empty or has no contact.
  • MediumAlarms that never clear. An alarm active for more than seven days.
  • LowScheduled backups off. The gateway makes no backups on its own.
  • LowModules a backup does not hold. What you need beyond the backup file to rebuild this gateway.

Included at no cost

More than a one-time report.

Security Guard

A record of every security change

Every 30 seconds Pulse compares the gateway's users, roles, API keys, identity providers, modules and security settings with the last look. Each change is recorded with what changed and who made it, along with sign-ins from a new address or at an unusual hour.

Your monitoring tools

OpenTelemetry export

Pulse can publish health metrics, findings and security events to your own OpenTelemetry collector, and from there to Grafana, Datadog, New Relic or Azure Monitor. It is off by default and it never goes to Artek.

On the gateway

Scheduled runs, alarms and a PDF

Run the checks on a schedule, keep the run history, and get the report as a PDF or by email. A Pulse tag provider carries health tags with alarms, so your existing notification pipelines can page the right person.


Optional service

Monitoring by Artek engineers.

Turn on one checkbox and Pulse sends health data and findings to Artek. Our engineers watch your gateways, propose a fix for every finding and respond by severity.

  • A proposed fix for every finding, not only a list of problems.
  • Two engineer hours a month included. Larger fixes are quoted at a fixed price.
  • Monitoring and alerts run around the clock. Our staff respond in business hours, Monday to Friday, 8 to 5 Central.
  • Module updates included.
SeverityWe respond within
Critical2 business hours
High1 business day
Medium5 business days
LowMonthly report
MonitoringPrice
Your company, first gateway included$1,500 a month
Each additional gatewayEvery gateway counts: both halves of a redundant pair, development, test and Edge.$500 a month

What leaves your gateway

Nothing, until you turn sending on.

Security teams ask this first, so Pulse answers it on the gateway itself.

What do I need to run it? +

Ignition 8.3.4 or later. Pulse installs like any other signed Ignition module.

What does the free version leave out? +

Nothing on the gateway. Every check, the report, Security Guard, the health tags and the OpenTelemetry export are free. The paid service is Artek’s engineers watching the results and proposing fixes.

How is this different from the Ignition MRI? +

The MRI is a review we do from a gateway backup you send us. Pulse runs the same kind of checks on the live gateway, as often as you like, and also sees what a backup cannot: devices, connections, alarms and security changes as they happen.

Which gateways count for monitoring? +

Every gateway Pulse monitors counts, including both halves of a redundant pair and development, test and Edge gateways.

Let's talk

Want to see what Pulse finds on your gateway? Ask us for it.

Tell us which Ignition version you run and how many gateways. We will get you set up.

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