Features

  • Comprehensive Monitoring: BrowserMon captures a rich set of 17 browsing parameters, providing a comprehensive view of browsing activities. This depth of data enables accurate analysis and informed decision-making.

  • Data Privacy: BrowserMon focuses solely on browser history and does not infringe upon broader internet activity or compromise user privacy beyond the scope of browsing data.

  • Non-Intrusive Monitoring: One of the standout benefits of BrowserMon is its non-intrusive monitoring capability. Regardless of the operating system you’re using, BrowserMon operates seamlessly behind the scenes without causing disruptions or interfering with other data on your system.

  • Centralized management with Watchdog: Browsermon enterprise is managed by Watchdog. Which serves as a centralized management and licensing server for Browsermon agents installed in the enterprise. Watchdog operates on a dedicated Linux server (or VM) and registers all enterprise Browsermon instances to perform health checking and validate licenses.

  • Browsermon Config Push Protocol: Now you can override the default browsermon configuration browsermon.conf, by pushing a config file browsermon-watchdog.conf via watchdog server to complete deployment. A local sysadmin however, can override watchdog pushed configuration by writing a local file, browsermon-local.conf.

  • Kafka Integration for Central History Database: BrowserMon 2.0 integrates with Apache Kafka and MongoDB to store browser history data in a central database. This setup provides scalable data management and real-time data streaming through Kafka, ensuring up-to-date and consistent logging and analytics. This feature is optional and can be disabled if other solutions like Splunk or Elasticsearch are preferred.

  • Health Checker Implementation: BrowserMon 2.0 includes a Health Checker that verifies the licensing status by sending periodic requests to the Watchdog server. It attempts multiple retries until confirmation is received, ensuring that controllers and the BrowserMon service remain operational.

  • Enhanced Dashboards with Grafana: Grafana based dashboards are built to provide visibility different license utilizations, controller count and any operational issue. You can use this Grafana interface to search history logs. Users can view the dashboard at https://localhost:1514.