Quiet until something is wrong.
AI NetRiva keeps an eye on every device on your network and tells you the moment one stops answering — with enough context to fix it, not just a red dot.
See where everything is, and what is wrong with it
Put your devices on your own floor plan. Status, Wi-Fi coverage and traffic, live, in the place you'd walk to fix it.
Your whole network on one screen
The dashboard puts the live map next to what matters right now: what is down, what is busy, and what just happened. Traffic moves along the links, busy links turn amber, and a link to a device that stopped answering turns red.
Works with the switches and firewalls you already have
Anything that speaks SNMP is monitored today. Vendor-aware AI troubleshooting over SSH and API, read-only, is available in beta for these makes: it picks the right command set for each device and only runs the vendor’s documented display commands.
Everything, on one machine
No agents to roll out, no collector to host, no database to install. Copy one file onto the machine that's always on and you're monitoring in about a minute.
Automatic discovery
Sweeps your subnets and fingerprints what it finds — switches, APs, cameras, printers, servers — using ARP, reverse DNS and MAC vendor lookup.
Continuous checks
Latency, packet loss, SNMP interface counters, CPU, memory and disk — sampled every few seconds, with rolling history drawn as sparklines.
Talk to your network
Ask what's wrong in plain language and it reasons over your own counters, logs and console output to name a cause. It can go further and draft the fix — a config change you read and approve before anything is sent to a device. Set recurring jobs to check things overnight on a token budget you cap. Your API key, your choice of provider.
Alerts you'll notice
A siren in the browser, email, ntfy push, or a webhook into whatever you already use. Acknowledge an alarm so it stops nagging, or let it escalate.
A map of the actual place
Drop devices onto your own floor plan or site photo, draw the links, and see what an outage takes with it. Neighbours come from CDP and LLDP.
Your network stays yours
Every measurement lives on your machine. Device names, addresses and configs are never uploaded — not to us, not to anyone. Exactly what does leave.
See what the switch itself says
Persistent SSH sessions stream console output off your switches into a live, searchable feed — the messages that normally scroll past on a cable nobody has plugged in. A port flapping, an STP change, a PSU complaining: you read it as it happens, next to the graphs, instead of finding it days later.
Runs without anyone logged in
Installs as a Windows service or a systemd unit, so it keeps watching when the machine reboots at 3am and nobody is sitting in front of it. A monitor that only runs while you are logged in is not a monitor.
Move it to another machine in minutes
Your whole setup — devices, thresholds, alerts, map layout, floor plan — downloads as a plain zip you can open and read. Restore it somewhere else and you are back where you were, without rebuilding anything by hand.
Built during shows, not in a meeting
It started as two Python scripts holding a network together while people depended on it. This is the rewrite — same job, built properly. The parts that exist are the parts that got used at 2am.
Setup guides that already know your address
The built-in knowledge base prints the exact SNMP or syslog command for your switch with this server's real IP and port already substituted in — so you copy a working line, not a template.
Syslog and live consoles
An RFC3164/5424 syslog receiver with search and retention, plus persistent SSH sessions streaming switch console output into the same feed.
Config backup with diffs
Pulls running-configs over SSH on a schedule, keeps versions, and shows you what changed between any two — which is usually the answer.
AI NetRiva in brief
What is AI NetRiva?
Self-hosted network monitoring software. One program runs on one Windows or Linux machine on your network, discovers the devices on it, checks them every few seconds, collects syslog, draws a topology map, backs up switch configs and raises alarms. There are no agents, no cloud collector and no database to install.
Who is it for?
IT administrators and small teams looking after office, venue or small-business networks — typically from ten to a few hundred devices — who want monitoring that stays on their own network and is priced per device rather than per sensor.
Which devices and vendors does it support?
Any device that answers ping and SNMP can be monitored, including switches and access points from Cisco, Dell, Arista, Huawei, Extreme Networks, MikroTik, Ubiquiti, TP-Link, NETGEAR, D-Link, Zyxel and Mercusys, and pfSense and OPNsense firewalls. Neighbours for the map come from CDP and LLDP.
What does it cost?
An annual licence per install, by device count: $49 for 10 devices, $99 for 25, $179 for 50, $299 for 100, $499 for 200 and $799 for unlimited. Every feature is in every tier. The 14-day trial has everything switched on for up to 10 devices and needs no card. Pricing details.
What does it need to run?
Windows 10, 11 or Server 2016 and later, or Linux with glibc 2.31 or later, on amd64 or arm64 — a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 on a 64-bit OS is enough. It uses about 80 MB of memory idle. macOS is not supported yet. The current release is 1.2.0: a Windows installer or portable zip, a Linux tar.gz, or .deb and .rpm packages. Full requirements.
Does any of my network data leave the machine?
No. Measurements, device names, addresses and configs stay on the machine it runs on. The only exception is one you start yourself: Device diagnostics sends a redacted device report to NetRiva support only when you press Send. The privacy page lists every request the product makes, field by field.
Try it on your own network
Free for 14 days with every feature switched on, up to 10 devices. After that, an annual licence per install — from $49/year. Updates and support are included while it's live.
Questions before you buy?
Licensing, deployment, or a device it fingerprinted wrong. A real person replies within a working day.
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