tink.bot control plane
Your server's mechanic
Tink watches your server, explains what is wrong in plain English, guides fixes from the CLI, and keeps your dashboard and alerts up to date automatically.
curl -fsSL https://tink.bot/install | shcurl -fsSL https://tink.bot/rescue | sh
Continuously scan, diagnose, and report
Keep credentials server-side, not on user machines
Run supervised fixes with a clear audit trail
Pricing
Simple plans. No agent fees. No hidden costs.
Start free on a single machine. Scale when you need supervised or autonomous execution.
Scout
Free
forever
- 1 machine
- Hourly scans
- AI issue detection
- 50 AI messages / month
- Assisted fixes only
Most popular
Mechanic
$9
/ month per machine
- Unlimited machines
- 5-minute scans
- Supervised fix execution
- 500 AI messages / month
- Telegram alerts + AI chat
Crew Chief
$29
/ month per machine
- Everything in Mechanic
- Real-time scans
- Autonomous execution (levels 0–4)
- Unlimited AI messages
- Weekly fleet digest
Rescue
$29
one-time
- Emergency diagnostic session
- Full autonomous execution
- No subscription required
- Ideal for production fires
Why Tink?
Netdata shows you the problem. Tink fixes it.
Uptime tools tell you something broke. Netdata shows you metrics. Tink tells you what's wrong, why it happened, and walks you through the fix — in plain English, on Telegram or Slack, without leaving your chat.
| Feature | Tink | Netdata | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Explains problems in plain English | ✓ | — | — |
| Executes supervised fixes | ✓ | — | — |
| Predictive alerts (disk fills in ~6 days) | ✓ | — | — |
| Telegram alerts + AI conversation | ✓ | — | — |
| One-command install | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Root cause analysis | ✓ | — | — |
| Weekly fleet digest | ✓ | — | — |
| Claude Desktop / Cursor MCP integration | ✓ | — | — |
| SSH brute-force detection | ✓ | — | — |
| Discord / Slack / ntfy / WhatsApp notifications | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Public status page (no extra cost) | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Machine offline / agent presence monitoring | ✓ | — | — |
| Statistical baseline anomaly detection | ✓ | — | — |
| Exposed database port detection (Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) | ✓ | — | — |
| On-call person tracking + incident acknowledgment | ✓ | — | — |
| Multi-channel weekly digest (Telegram, Email, Slack, Discord) | ✓ | — | — |
vs Enterprise Monitoring
Datadog costs $104K/year. Tink costs $9/month per machine.
Datadog is exceptional software — for teams with dedicated platform engineers, six-figure observability budgets, and months to configure it. Most small teams need something that works in five minutes and speaks plain English.
Datadog
~$800–1,000/month (10 machines)
- Per-host + per-GB log pricing
- Complex YAML alert configuration
- APM & distributed tracing
- Weeks to fully configure
- No plain-English explanations
- No supervised fix execution
Right-sized for small teams
Tink
$90/month (10 machines)
- Flat rate — no usage surprises
- Zero configuration required
- Plain-English AI explanations
- 5-minute install
- Supervised fix execution
- SSH brute-force detection included
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