Allen Bradley + MikroTik + Admiral = yes, please!

One of our recent on-premise Admiral customers told us something we hear a lot: Admiral is incredible at centralizing the health and status of hundreds of MikroTik routers and switches—but he wished he had the same visibility, alerts, and notifications for his Allen-Bradley industrial network gear.

Allen-Bradley (a Rockwell Automation brand) is everywhere in industrial control systems. Their PLCs and industrial Ethernet devices run and monitor real-world processes—pumping stations, substations, treatment facilities, manufacturing lines, and remote sites. And in many of those environments you’ll also find Rockwell/Allen-Bradley platforms like PowerFlex drives (used to control motors and variable speed applications) alongside HMIs, I/O, and networking components that all depend on reliable communications to keep operations stable.

That conversation got us thinking: our Endpoints technology—now called WatchTower—is the perfect foundation to extend Admiral’s monitoring and alerting into the industrial world, starting with Allen-Bradley.

Why this matters

In energy, utilities, and industrial operations, “network hiccups” aren’t just annoying—they can mean lost telemetry, delayed alarms, unplanned downtime, or equipment operating without the oversight you’re counting on. When communication failures happen between remote field sites and the head-end (or between controllers, drives, and upstream monitoring systems), you want to know immediately—before a minor issue becomes a costly outage.

And the reality is: much of this gear lives in rugged terrain and harsh conditions. Links can be wireless, long-distance, or exposed to weather and interference. Reliability expectations are high, but the network path often isn’t as perfect as we’d like.

Enter WatchTower

WatchTower is the backend we built to monitor and notify on the health of *nix servers—and it’s designed to extend to other devices and protocols. The core building blocks are already in place: centralized dashboards, charts and historical trends, alerting, and notifications.

Work is already underway to tune WatchTower for Allen-Bradley environments so our customers can get fast, actionable alerts when industrial communications or device health indicators drift out of bounds.

Where Admiral is today

Today, Admiral can:

• Detect supported Allen-Bradley models
• Alert on health signals like latency shifts, connectivity/reachability issues, and service availability
• Surface those alerts in the dashboard and via email
• Provide historical graphs so you can see when issues started and whether they’re getting worse

What’s next

Next up, we’re focused on making alerting more powerful and more flexible:

• A notification policy engine so you can define your own thresholds and escalation rules
• Additional delivery methods like Slack, Telegram, and SMS
• Expanded visibility so alerts are as complete, reliable, and industrial-grade as possible

If you’re running Allen-Bradley in the field and want Admiral-style visibility across your industrial network, WatchTower is the path forward—and we’re building it now.

Throughout 2026, the Admiral team will be working hard to support more vendors!