Owlette
Owlette is an agent and cloud dashboard for monitoring, managing, and deploying software across unattended Windows machines.
What Owlette is
Owlette is an agent and cloud dashboard for monitoring, managing, and deploying software across unattended Windows machines. It shows live CPU, memory, GPU, and disk metrics with trend charts, and sends email or webhook notifications. Operators can remotely start, stop, restart, or kill processes, configure startup sequences and dependencies, and enable crash recovery. Software, configurations, and content can be deployed fleet-wide or to selected machines. Hoot converts plain-English requests into diagnostic and management actions using the customer’s own OpenAI, Anthropic, or compatible API key. Talons run from schedules, metric thresholds, or events and can trigger alerts, restarts, or Hoot directives. Agents continue monitoring and recovering processes offline, then synchronize missed data after reconnecting. Display management can restore saved Windows layouts, including NVIDIA Mosaic-aware configurations. Owlette offers a REST API, CLI, TypeScript SDK, scoped keys, and signed webhooks. Core is $20 a month and Pro is $60 a month; both are billed free during beta.
Good
- Live hardware metrics with alerts
- Remote process control and crash recovery
- Fleet-wide or selective deployment
- Offline monitoring with later synchronization
- REST API, CLI, and TypeScript SDK
Watch out
- Windows-only; no native macOS or Linux agents
- Hoot requires your own AI API key
- Pro requires three machines minimum
- Paid plans are listed as beta-free
Who it suits
It suits teams operating unattended Windows installations such as digital signage, museums, live events, corporate AV, and LED displays. Developers and operators can also use its API and automation controls.
Verdict
Owlette combines Windows fleet monitoring, process management, deployment, automation, and display recovery. Its Windows-only scope and external AI key requirement are central considerations for prospective users.
Plans and prices
From Owlette's own pricing page, checked 2 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Core | $20 a month | 1 site with role-based access · unlimited machines & members · email alerts · email support · free during beta; $10 founders rate — first 200 |
| Pro | $60 a month | 1 TB included project storage per site · $0.05/GB overage · 50-version retention with 30-day rollback · unlimited sites · priority support · free during beta; 3-machine minimum · $30 founders rate — first 200 |
The facts
Each one read from Owlette's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI assistant
- Hoot converts plain-English requests into fleet diagnostic and management actions and requires the user's own OpenAI, Anthropic, or compatible API key.checked 2 Oct 2026
- API integrations
- The product offers a REST API with site/action-scoped keys, idempotency-required writes, HMAC-signed webhooks, a CLI, and a TypeScript SDK.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Automations
- Talons can trigger on schedules, metric thresholds, or events, optionally use AI visual checks, and output email, webhooks, process restarts, or Hoot directives.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Data location
- Owlette is operated from the United States, with its primary Firestore database in Google's nam5 US multi-region.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Owlette can deploy software, configurations, and content fleet-wide or to selected machines.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Display management
- Owlette detects Windows display-topology drift and can automatically restore a saved layout, including NVIDIA Mosaic-aware configurations.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- It provides live CPU, memory, GPU, and disk metrics with sparkline trend charts and email or webhook notifications.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Offline operation
- Agents continue monitoring and recovering processes without cloud connectivity and synchronize missed data after reconnecting.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Process control
- Users can remotely start, stop, restart, or kill processes and configure startup sequences, dependencies, and crash auto-recovery.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Product
- Owlette is an agent and cloud dashboard for monitoring, managing, and deploying software across fleets of unattended Windows machines.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Security
- The service uses TLS/HTTPS with HSTS, AES-256 encryption at rest, encrypted HTTP-only sessions, optional passkeys and two-factor authentication, machine-specific credential keys, role-based access controls, and database authorization rules.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Support
- Core includes email support, Pro includes priority support, and the site lists [email protected] as a contact address.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Target users
- The product is built for theme parks, digital signage, museums and galleries, live events, corporate AV, worship, virtual production, projector walls, and LED installations.checked 2 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform limit
- Owlette is Windows-only; it does not provide native macOS or Linux agents.checked 2 Oct 2026
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