When you make a change directly on a router in WinBox, Admiral doesn't learn about it right away. Discovery, the process that keeps Admiral in sync with your routers, runs automatically once a day. Until then, the router and Admiral…
Recently we had the opportunity to investigate some polling and telemetry issues on some poorly connected MikroTiks with high latency, packet loss and intermittent accessibility. That got me thinking, what counters exist to understand this behavior and how can Admiral…
MikroTik has published fixed releases in every channel. Here is what Admiral exposes, what it doesn't, and how to fence SSH down to Admiral alone while you roll firmware across your fleet. THE SHORT VERSIONUpgrade. Fixes are out in all…
If Admiral is running mission-critical parts of your network, a single regional outage shouldn't mean you're flying blind. That's why we're introducing Sister Ship — a geo-redundant secondary Admiral account, available at a steep discount for existing customers. What Sister…
Connecting a Child MikroTik Behind a Parent MikroTik (No Direct Internet Access)
Coming Soon: a custom Notifications Template Engine for the Admiral Dashboard. The core idea is that alert definitions become reusable objects instead of one-off settings. An administrator builds a template once, and any user in the system can subscribe to it. No re-creating the same threshold rule for the twelfth time, and no hunting through a dozen screens to figure out why someone is or isn't getting alerted.
We've been heads-down improving the Subscriber View in Compass WiFi, and this release brings some of the biggest usability upgrades yet.
On a recent episode of Bridge Mode, hosts Marc from Admiral Platform and Tyler from DM-Tech Wireless walked through a strange and potentially serious bug they'd uncovered in RouterOS 7 — one that appears to affect every version they tested, including…
Here are some powerful features and shortcuts to help you get the most out of Admiral: Operations Tip: Spend time setting up your Admin Settings, Tags, and Groups early - it pays huge dividends as your deployment grows! 🔍 Quick…
Blank Backups in Admiral Platform? Your MikroTik SSH Host Key May Be Corrupt If your MikroTik backups are showing up blank in Admiral Platform, one possible cause is a corrupt SSH host key on the MikroTik itself. We recently helped…
Admiral Platform continues to evolve with a focus on making MikroTik and network infrastructure management faster, cleaner, and easier at scale. Over the last few months, we’ve released several improvements across logging, WatchTower, router discovery, Router Health, historical tracking, and…
Recently Admiral added support for Dell switch backups in WatchTower, which faced unexpected difficulties. This, however, is not entirely unexpected. As the Admiral team has continued adding support for different devices, we’ve found plenty of situations where devices don’t necessarily…
If you host services from a home or small office connection, there’s a good chance your ISP gave you a dynamic public IP instead of a static one—which can make custom domains feel frustratingly unreliable. In this Case Study, we’ll…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiKrWahs5pY Bridge Mode is where we get real with real-world operators—no vendor fluff, no theory-only takes—just the deployments, decisions, and lessons learned in production networks. In this episode, MikroTik Marc sits down with Tyler Casey from DMTech to unpack two…
We've recently shipped two features that make it significantly easier to monitor fleet health and troubleshoot issues across your deployment. Uptime Report You'll now find a dedicated Uptime Report under Reports > Uptime Report. This page gives you a clear picture…
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…
The Admiral Platform team is headed to ISP America 2026 in Atlanta, GA (March 2–5)—and we’d love to see you there. Stop by Booth #125 to get a hands-on look at what’s new in Admiral, including: Centralized MikroTik management built for ISPs and MSPs Automated speed…
Faster, more reliable backups for even the largest RouterOS configurations. Managing network infrastructure means managing configurations—and when those configurations grow large, backing them up reliably becomes a real challenge. Our development team recently tackled this head-on, and we're excited to…
NETWORK ENGINEER TIP As part of building the VXLAN class, one of our engineers put together a useful helper script to streamline the process. It’s worth noting that this script is intended for transport links that use a /29 addressing scheme…
As we built our MikroTik VXLAN class for Admiral Academy, one deliverable mattered as much as the curriculum itself: a lab environment that was powerful, safe, and frictionless for students anywhere in the world. To make the training truly hands-on,…