One platform to collect, organise, alert and govern
AEON combines a network monitoring foundation with the governance core of the original AEON data-centre platform. Here is how it fits together, and what is available today.
How the platform fits together
Collectors near your devices, storage and control on your servers, governance in the path of every action.
What each part does
Available today unless marked otherwise.
Collectors and discovery
Close to your devices, built to keep running.
- SNMP v2c and v3 polling with vendor-neutral device profiles
- NetFlow v5/v9, IPFIX and sFlow collection
- Discovery from seeds and ranges, following LLDP, CDP and ARP
- Local disk queue so a central outage loses no data
Organisation and inventory
Your structure, your vocabulary.
- Any hierarchy: head office, zones, clusters, branches, halls, racks
- History stays correct when locations are restructured
- Multiple organisations on one installation, isolated in the database
- Signed industry packs for hierarchies, terminology and attributes
Operator console
Built for long shifts and wall screens.
- Location tree with link health at every level
- Topology maps, traffic views and dashboards you build yourself
- Alerts with acknowledgement and history
- Control view: pending approvals and the deciding rule for every action
Alerting, calendars and SLA
The right people, the right evidence.
- Rules for reachability, link state, utilisation and any metric
- Maintenance windows and dependency suppression
- Email, signed webhooks, Microsoft Teams and Slack
- Business-hours SLA reports in PDF, Excel and CSV, on schedule
Authorisation and governance
The safety chokepoint for every action.
- Role x risk authorisation matrix; automation capped below a human administrator
- Device control levels that can only tighten a decision
- Approvals with no self-approval, quorum for irreversible actions, expiry
- Read-only mode that structurally blocks control
Physics and containment
What will this command actually do?
- Thermal and electrical envelope checks, including N+1 redundancy
- Scoped, expiring capability tokens for automation
- Instructions from untrusted content cannot carry a write
- Every decision hash-chained into a verifiable ledger
Diagnosis and prediction
Explainable foresight for data centres.
- Conservative anomaly detection with guarded baselines
- Failure prediction with time to breach
- Root-cause correlation across power, cooling and IT
- Matches the original AEON engine exactly on its 50-rack test scenario
Governed self-healing
Fixes the routine; escalates the rest. Approved actions are carried out by an executor and verified.
- Maps findings to conservative actions
- Requests every action through Sentinel and the Envelope
- Cooldowns prevent flapping; verifies the fix worked
- Works within a scope an administrator approves, for at most 30 days
The technology
Open, well-understood components you can run and inspect yourself.
Go
Static binaries with a local write-ahead queue, tested against real SNMP and flow traffic.
Python on PostgreSQL
Tenant isolation enforced by row-level security in the database, not only in application code.
VictoriaMetrics and ClickHouse
Metrics with retention tiers, and flow records with five-minute rollups.
React
Keyboard-accessible, status never shown by colour alone, fonts bundled for air-gapped sites.
Built-in accounts or your SSO
Authenticator-app MFA, or any OpenID Connect provider such as Keycloak or Entra ID.
On-site, even air-gapped
Offline installer with verified checksums, or a one-server Docker setup for pilots.
Watch AEON work on your estate
Start with a monitor-only pilot and see discovery, health, traffic, alerts and SLA reporting on your own devices.
Request a pilot