Catch every change to every endpoint
Ambiscribe snapshots your whole fleet every five minutes and compares each report to the last. When something moves, it's on the record at the field level, with the high-signal events flagged. You find out before the ticket does.
Change detection records what changed on your systems, when, and where, so configuration drift and unauthorized changes surface on their own instead of through an incident. Ambiscribe does this across endpoints and network devices, not just network configs. Ambiscribe records and answers; it is not an RMM and does not act on machines.
The problem
Most changes you find out about the hard way
A firewall rule opens. A local admin gets added at 2am. Antivirus signatures quietly go stale. None of it announces itself.
You learn about it when a user complains, an audit fails, or something breaks. Then the first hour of the ticket goes to working out what changed and when, usually by logging into the box and comparing it against your memory of how it used to look.
Change detection turns that into a lookup. The delta is already recorded, already timestamped, already attributed to a host.
How it works
Snapshot, diff, flag. On a five-minute loop.
The same loop that documents the fleet is what detects the changes.
Snapshot full state
The agent reports each endpoint's complete configuration every five minutes. Reports are diff-aware, so steady-state check-ins stay small.
Diff against the last report
Ambiscribe compares the new state to the previous one and stores the exact field that changed, its old and new value, and the time.
Flag the ones that matter
High-signal changes are marked notable and pushed to your webhooks or email. Routine updates stay in the record without crowding the feed.
What it catches
The changes worth waking up for
Flagged as notable and separated from routine software updates, so they don't get buried.
New local administrators
An account added to a local admin group shows up the next cycle, with the host and the time.
Disk encryption off
BitLocker or FileVault turning off is one of the first things you want to know, and one of the easiest to miss.
Firewall changes
A rule opened or the firewall disabled, recorded against the machine it happened on.
Stale antivirus
Defender or third-party signatures aging past a threshold, so a quietly-unprotected machine surfaces.
New services
A new service or startup item appearing, which is often the first visible sign of something unwanted.
Certificate expiry
TLS certificates flagged at 30, 7, and 0 days, before the outage instead of after.
Software changes
Anything installed, updated, or removed, kept in the record even when it isn't notable.
Cross-machine correlation
When the same change lands on many endpoints in one window, Ambiscribe clusters it instead of showing fifty separate events.
Point-in-time state
Ask any machine what it looked like on a past date. Every snapshot is kept in full, field by field.
Where the line is
Endpoint change detection, not just network configs
Network configuration managers watch switches and firewalls. Ambiscribe watches the endpoints too, and records, it doesn't act.
| Network config tools | Ambiscribe | |
|---|---|---|
| Covers endpoints | Network devices only | Endpoints and network gear |
| Granularity | Config file diffs | Field-level, across all of state |
| Security posture | Limited | Encryption, antivirus, admins, firewall |
| Acts on machines | Often (push configs) | No. Records and answers only |
Questions
Common questions
What's the difference between change detection and monitoring?
Monitoring watches metrics and availability: is the disk filling up, is the host responding. Change detection records configuration deltas: what setting, package, account, or service changed, when, and on which machine. You want both, but a change is often the cause behind a metric going bad.
How quickly does Ambiscribe detect a change?
Within the snapshot cycle. The agent reports full state every five minutes, so a change is recorded and, if it's high-signal, flagged within minutes rather than at the next manual review.
Does it detect changes on network devices too?
Yes. A LAN probe polls firewalls, switches, and access points over SNMP and vendor APIs, so network gear shows up in the same change feed as your endpoints.
What counts as a notable change?
The security-relevant fields: a new local administrator, disk encryption off, a firewall rule opened, antivirus signatures going stale, a new listening service, and certificates nearing expiry. They're flagged separately from routine updates so they don't get buried.
Related: how to track configuration changes across servers →
Comparing tools? See Ambiscribe vs Liongard.
Know what changed, before the ticket
Put an agent on your fleet and let the change feed catch what you'd otherwise find out the hard way.
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