Guides for every screen.
Each guide has a short how-to and a "Something not working?" list. The same text appears inside the app.
Start here
Getting started
Add your first machine: press Add machine on the Fleet and pick the way that fits. If you are not sure, pick "
About
This page shows the app's version, and whether a newer one is waiting. Vantage looks for updates only once you
Add a machine
Add this Mac
Vantage checks that an agent build for this Mac is staged, that port 9736 is free, and whether this Mac has a
Add a machine over SSH
Check that `ssh <host>` works from this Mac without asking for a password: a key in `~/.ssh` and an entry in `
Pair with a machine that already runs the agent
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Add machines from your tailnet
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Add a machine by copying the files over
Press Show the files. It opens the folder with the agent builds and `install-agent.sh`. Put these in one folde
Add a machine that cannot be reached directly
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Agents & updates
Stage the new agent builds on this Mac. The app does not download them.
This Mac
If the agent is not installed on this Mac, add it from Add machine > This Mac.
Watch and alert
Rules
Press New rule. A rule is one sentence: when a machine (or any machine, a tag or a site) does something, alert
Notifications and phone alerts
Switch on the severities you want in the Notifications card. macOS asks once for permission to show notificati
Observability server
Add at least one machine first. The observability server runs on one of your machines.
Logs on this Mac
Open this page on a Mac. It does nothing on Linux.
Sites
Press Add a site. A site is a place: a factory, a home, a cloud account.
Playbooks
Press New playbook, give it a name, and pick the rule it runs for under "When this rule fires".
Networks and access
Tailnet
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Relay
Use the relay only for machines behind a router with no tailnet. Everything else is simpler by another way.
Web UI
Switch the Web UI on. It serves read-only pages for a phone or another computer on your tailnet.
Cloud accounts
Pick the cloud in Add an account: AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI) or Google Cloud. A line under the form says what the
Teams, AI and safety
Team and Join a team
To invite someone, open Invite someone, pick a role (operator can act on machines, viewer only looks), type th
Connect your AI
If you use Claude Code, press Add to Claude Code. Vantage runs the command for you.
Ask Claude
Turn the switch on. It is off until you do.
Security and the Secure Enclave
Read each machine's ceiling on this page. Every machine is asked at once and each answer appears as it arrives
More
Delete your data
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Terms and licence
The licence is the file `LICENSE` at the top of the Vantage folder, and a copy comes in every release folder.
Also see the FAQ, the install notes and the changelog.