Detect+BetaFree on every plan during the beta.
A monitoring agent on your VPS watches your trading platform, data feed and broker connections, Remote Desktop, restarts and Windows Update. It alerts you when your platform or data feed stops, and your dashboard shows what happened.
Meet Detect+, 17 seconds
Its figures come from a sample VPS in Chicago.
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This is Detect+, a small agent on your VPS. It watches your VPS, and tells you when something needs a look.
It shows the health of your VPS: CPU, memory and storage, now and over time.
It checks the network from your VPS to your brokers and data feeds, and shows the latency to each one.
On a Windows VPS, it also checks from outside that Remote Desktop answers.
Turn on the alerts you want. Detect+ then sends you an email when a problem starts.
In Settings, you can change the time zone. On Windows, you can also change the Remote Desktop port and the Windows Update settings.
Questions about your data? Open a support ticket. If you allow access, our team can review your data with you.
Detect+ is for monitoring and alerting only. It does not replace your own risk controls. Follow the steps below to get started.
Detect+ picks out NinjaTrader 8, Quantower, MetaTrader 4 and 5, TradeStation, Sierra Chart, cTrader, R | Trader Pro, Bookmap, MotiveWave, MultiCharts, ATAS and TradingView desktop. For each one running, it records CPU, memory, start time and open network connections. When Windows reports that a platform crashed, the Trading platform crash alert emails you.
Your VPS checks each trading server with a DNS lookup, a ping and a connection test, and checks the servers your platform is connected to right now. The Network tab shows which answer, their latency and packet loss, one trading session at a time.
Each minute, each of our regions tries your Remote Desktop port. See its uptime for the last 24 hours and the last 7, 30 and 90 days.
Each restart is logged with what caused it, such as an update, a crash, a blue screen, a power loss or a host restart. The Restart alert can email you about the unexpected ones only.
On a Windows VPS, see whether it is Trader-safe: Windows tells you about updates but never downloads, installs or restarts on its own. Switch to Trader-safe in one click, install updates when you choose and schedule the restart.
Bots scan port 3389, the Windows default, much more than a random high port. Move Remote Desktop to a random high port from your dashboard. If our servers cannot reach it within 10 minutes, the VPS goes back to the old one. Failed and successful sign-ins show with their addresses, and you can still block one.
It charts CPU and CPU steal, memory, disk latency and free space on drive C:, from the last half hour to the last 60 days. It also shows the VPS clock’s offset, which can skew order timestamps.
Alerts by email, in the dashboard, and in Telegram, Slack and similar apps. Each email names the VPS, says what happened and when, and links to your dashboard. Emails go to the email on your account, at most 30 a day for each VPS.
Settings › Past alerts lists your alerts of the last 90 days. Each row shows when, which alert, what happened, whether it is ongoing or over, and whether it was emailed. Alerts past the daily email limit still show there.
Fires when your VPS stays unable to reach the internet while it still sends its reports. Set it to watch the VPS and trading servers to hear when it cannot reach your brokers or data feeds too. A VPS that is off or fully offline sends no reports, so it gets no alert.
Fires when Windows restarts. Choose unexpected restarts only (a crash, blue screen, power loss or host restart), add automatic ones such as updates, or every restart. The email says what happened, for example that Windows stopped with a blue screen.
Fires when Windows reports that a trading platform crashed and, if you choose, when it stopped responding. A platform you close yourself does not alert. The email names the program, for example NinjaTrader.exe.
Fires when CPU use stays above the limit you choose: 80, 90 or 95%. Its status turns from Ongoing to Over once CPU drops back below it.
Fires when memory in use stays above the limit you choose: 85, 90 or 95%. Its status turns to Over once memory drops back below it.
Fires when free space on drive C: falls below the limit you choose: 5, 10 or 20 GB. Once you free up enough space, its status turns to Over.
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Alerts and events
Whether Remote Desktop answers, and any problem found.
Your trading platform, running or stopped, and the feeds it is connected to.
CPU and memory with their trend, and uptime for the last 7 days.
Over the trading session, with regular hours marked.
What the VPS received and sent, then each alert and event with its time.
Open the Detect+ tab in your dashboard and copy your install link.
On your computer, connect to your VPS with Remote Desktop. The password is on the Control Panel.
On your VPS, open the web browser, paste the link and press Enter.
Then, follow the page. It shows you each click.
Copy one install command instead. Connect over SSH, paste it and press Enter. The last line says “QuantVPS agent … installed and running”.
Free on every plan during the beta.
Install Detect+ on your VPS
Know when your platform or data feed stops. Copy one link, paste it on your VPS, and the Detect+ tab fills in by itself.
Get your install linkYour dashboard makes a link for each of your VPSs. A link works for 14 days.
Waiting for the first report. Detect+ opens about 5 minutes after the install.
Running programs and their file paths, network connections and latency, CPU, memory and disk history, and Windows event logs (crashes, restarts, Remote Desktop sign-ins and account changes).
Your files (apart from the platform log lines you allow), your screen, your passwords or what you type.
Support cannot open your Detect+ data until you allow it. When support asks on a ticket, allow it from the banner in your dashboard, and access ends when that ticket closes. Or share it until you stop, and end it at once with Stop sharing.
With access, support sees the same Detect+ data you see, so it can find the cause of a problem faster. Support never sees your files, your screen, your passwords or what you type. If you turn on platform log access, support also sees the connection lines Detect+ keeps from your trading platforms’ logs.
It drafts replies for support staff. When support asks it for a draft on a ticket that needs diagnostics, it reads a 24-hour summary of your shared data. It does not watch your VPS or send alerts.
Know when your platform or data feed stops.
Free on every plan during the beta.
Open the Detect+ tab in your dashboard to install it and turn on your alerts. No VPS yet? Every plan includes Detect+ during the beta.
