Netmon

Five - That's the average number of separate tools a small IT firm or managed service provider has open, right now, just to answer one question: *is my client's network okay?* One tab for monitoring. One for the vulnerability scanner. One for remote access. One — and I promise I'm not making this up — is a spreadsheet. And one is a half-written report that's been "in progress" since Tuesday. None of these five tabs talk to each other. Here's the thing about gaps. In engineering, in medicine, in air traffic control — incidents rarely happen inside a system. They happen in the seams between systems. The moment where Tool A assumes someone checked Tool B. And an MSP's tool stack is basically all seams. Your monitoring platform sees a device go quiet. Your scanner has no idea that device even exists. Your remote-access tool needs its own login, its own agent, its own place to break. And somewhere, someone still has to manually stitch it all into something a client can actually read. That question — "what exactly are we paying you for" — isn't really about price. It's about visibility. Clients can't see the work. So the work, to them, doesn't quite exist. So here's a nice question to ask: what if the tool stack wasn't five tools stitched together — but one system that was never apart in the first place? That's the entire premise behind Netmon. One agent, dropped onto a site, discovers "everything" — workstations, servers, printers, cameras, that mystery IoT sensor nobody remembers installing. Every device, live, refreshing every thirty seconds. Not a nightly scan. Not "check back tomorrow." Thirty seconds. And because it's "one" system, not five, something interesting happens: each part makes the others smarter. The monitoring layer knows a device exists the second it joins the network — so the vulnerability scanner doesn't need a separate inventory, it's already looking at the real one. It checks every device against the national CVE database AND the list of threats actively being exploited right now — not just "is a port open," but "does this actually matter." It also quietly learns what "normal" looks like for each client's network — so when an unfamiliar device shows up, it flags it immediately. One click to trust it if it's expected. One click to investigate if it's not. Need to jump onto that device? You're already there — no separate licence, no second agent to maintain, just click and you're in. And at the end of it all — the part that actually matters to your client — one click turns raw scan data into a plain-English report. Not a wall of jargon. The document that quietly answers "what am I paying you for," every single month. Here's what I find genuinely satisfying about this, and why I'm so proud of Netmon. It's not that Netmon does more than your current stack. It's that it does the "same" work with none of the gaps — because there's nowhere for a gap to be. One agent. One dashboard. One bill. Five tools become one. Which means five logins become one, five things that can silently fail become one thing you can actually trust — and that stitched-together Tuesday report becomes a single click. You didn't get into this business to babysit five dashboards. You got into it to keep networks running and clients happy — and, ideally, to prove it without writing a report by hand at 11pm. So visit Angstep.co.uk and "Book a demo", or download the free version (restricted features) and see for yourself. Want to see it running against a live network? Book a demo, and find out exactly how many tabs you get to close.