Northpane keeps your whole ops crew inside the same SSH, SFTP, and console sessions — right in the browser. Nothing to put on your machine. Your first host is usually live within ten minutes.
Free for 14 days. No card. 473 teams have onboarded since 2017.
Hosts
ops@edge-01:~$ systemctl status gateway
● gateway.service — active (running)
uptime 41d · mem 312M · reqs 8.4k/min
ops@edge-01:~$ tail -n2 access.log
200 GET /health 3ms
200 POST /session 11ms
ops@edge-01:~$ ▋
2,847
hosts managed last month
~17 min
median time to first session
99.95%
control-plane uptime, last 14 months
6 protocols
SSH, SFTP, VNC, Telnet, serial, RDP
// what northpane does
Four things, done properly. Your team logs in, connects, and gets on with the work. We keep the record.
Split, tab, or stack SSH and console sessions the way you already work. No context-switching between five apps.
ssh · sftp · vnc · telnet · serial · rdp
Who connected, to what, and what they ran. Replayable, timestamped, exportable. When auditors ask, you have the answer already.
Group hosts by environment, region, or client. Reach a boxed-in database through a bastion without hand-copying jump-host configs to everyone. Tag once, and the whole team sees the same tidy inventory — instead of the spreadsheet nobody kept current.
Honest note: Northpane handles access and session records. It isn't a monitoring or alerting product — keep the stack you already trust for metrics.
// getting started
Paste an address, point us at your key vault, hit connect. About ten minutes — well, closer to five if your keys already live in a vault.
Invite by email, assign roles. Read-only for the new hire, full control for the on-call lead. You decide who touches what.
Every session records on its own. No flag to remember, no plugin to enable. It's just on.
// from the teams using it
"We were juggling terminal configs across eleven engineers and three regions. Onboarding a new hire took the better part of a day. After Northpane? Fifteen minutes, and they only see the hosts they're cleared for. The recorded sessions settled our last compliance review without a single follow-up email."
"Honestly, I figured it was another browser gimmick. It's not. Latency's low enough that I forget it's in a tab."
"The setup docs could be friendlier. But once we got past that, offboarding stopped being a fire drill. One click and access is gone."
Fourteen days, every feature, no card. Connect a host, invite a teammate, see if it fits how you actually work.
Start your free trial// questions we actually get
No. It runs in the browser. Your servers stay where they are — Northpane connects to them, not the other way around.
SSH and SFTP are the daily drivers. VNC, Telnet, serial console, and remote desktop sessions are all supported too. If it speaks one of those, you can reach it.
Median across our accounts is about 17 minutes to a first live session. Invite, assign a role, done. No config files to copy around.
You revoke them once, from one place. Every session path they had closes at the same moment — no orphaned keys sitting on random laptops.
Fair question. No — we do access and session records, not metrics or alerting. Keep your monitoring stack; we don't try to replace it.
TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest for stored recordings. Credentials live in your vault, never in a browser. We run third-party penetration tests twice a year and build to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 standards. Full audit log on every connection.
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Fill this in and we'll set up your trial. Fourteen days, no card, cancel whenever. Prefer to talk it through first? Call us — we don't mind.