Glossary

Short, plain-English definitions of the words you'll see across Servor. New to a concept? This is the fastest place to get your bearings. For questions, see the FAQ; to fix problems, see Troubleshooting.

Agent

A lightweight program you install on each server with a one-line command. Once it's running, all day-to-day work — the web terminal, running commands and resource metrics — flows through the agent instead of SSH. It auto-updates and comes in builds for 7 OS/arch targets. If it stops reporting, the server shows as unreachable; bring it back with Repair the agent. See Add a server.

Alert

A rule that fires when a monitor changes status — for example, when a site goes from up to down. Alerts send messages to your notification channels. See Alerts.

Blacklist

A shared list of dangerous commands (such as rm -rf /) that Servor blocks everywhere they could run — the terminal, the command runner and the AI copilot. It's an always-on safety net you don't configure.

Check interval

How often a monitor runs its test. Shorter intervals catch problems faster; longer intervals are lighter. You set it per monitor. See Create a monitor.

Component (status page)

An item on a status page — often a service or subsystem — that you can link to a monitor so its status updates automatically. See Add components.

Cooldown

A minimum quiet period between repeated notifications on a notification channel, so a flapping service doesn't flood you with messages. See Notification channels.

AI copilot

A chat assistant with a single tool, run_command. It works in three modes — Ask, Plan, Auto — and always asks you to approve risky actions before your browser runs them. It's billed in credits. See Get started with the copilot.

Ask, Plan, Auto

The three copilot modes. Ask gives read-only advice. Plan proposes each action for your approval. Auto runs on its own, except destructive actions, which still need your approval. See Ask, Plan, Auto and Approve actions.

Credit

The unit the AI copilot consumes, billed on real token usage. Buy more with top-ups when your balance runs low. See Credits and usage.

Custom domain

Your own domain (like status.example.com) pointed at a status page with a CNAME. The classic pitfall is Cloudflare: the orange-cloud proxy must be off (grey cloud / DNS-only) for the certificate to be issued. See Custom domain.

Degraded

A monitor status meaning the target is reachable but not fully healthy — slow, partial or intermittent. Between up and down. See Monitor status.

Incident

A record of a problem you communicate publicly: a title, current status, impact and message. It can be created by hand or detected automatically from a monitor going down, and can be tied to a status page. You post updates over time and resolve it when fixed. See Report an incident.

Monitor

An automated check that watches an endpoint or resource — HTTP, TCP/port, ping, DNS, SSL certificate, keyword and more (nine types). Each reports up, degraded or down and tracks uptime. See Monitor types and Create a monitor.

Notification channel

Where alerts are delivered: Email, Slack, Discord or Webhook. Each supports a cooldown. See Notification channels.

Recovery key

A 24-word key given to you when you set up your vault. It's your backup way in if you forget your passphrase. Servor can't reset either, so save it somewhere safe — losing both means encrypted data can't be recovered. See Account and security.

Recipe

A preset prompt that starts an AI copilot session already pointed at a task, so you don't have to write the request from scratch. See Recipes.

Resource metrics

CPU, RAM and disk figures reported by the agent, shown on the server and usable in monitoring. See Resource metrics and Reading server metrics.

Role

A team member's permission level: owner > admin > member > viewer. Viewers are read-only; members can write and use the terminal/AI but can't create infrastructure; admins manage infra, billing and the team; owners can do everything. See Roles and permissions.

Scope

A permission attached to an API token that limits what it can read, such as monitors:read or incidents:write. See Scopes.

Seat

A billable place in your team. Adding members changes seat billing, and the payer (owner) is emailed. See Seats and billing.

SSH

Secure Shell — the standard way to open a remote terminal on a server. Servor uses SSH only for initial setup (probing, discovery, installing the agent). After that, everything runs through the agent. See What is SSH?.

Status page

A public page showing the health of your services, with your branding, components, uptime history, scheduled maintenance and incidents. Can be public or password-protected. See Create a status page.

Status (monitor)

The health a monitor reports: up (healthy), degraded (impaired) or down (failing). See Monitor status.

Status badge

A small embeddable SVG that shows a service's current status on your own site or README. See Status badge.

Subscriber

Someone who opts in to receive updates from a status page by email or webhook when incidents or maintenance are posted. See Subscribers.

Top-up

A credit package you buy to refill your AI copilot balance. See Credits and top-ups.

Unreachable

The state of a server whose agent isn't reporting in. Since all execution runs through the agent, an unreachable server can't run commands until it's back. Fix with Repair the agent and Connection issues.

Uptime

The percentage of time a monitor reported the target as healthy over a period. Higher is better. See Check server uptime.

Vault

What keeps your sensitive data encrypted in your browser. Servor can't read it. You unlock it once per session with your passphrase to run commands or use the copilot. See Unlock your vault.

Vault passphrase

The secret you set on first sign-in that encrypts your vault. Servor never sees it and can't reset it — that's what your recovery key is for.

Unlock

Entering your passphrase to open the vault for the session, enabling command execution, the terminal and the copilot. Read-only viewers don't need to unlock. See Unlock your vault.

Web terminal

A live shell to your server, right in the browser, with copy/paste and keyboard shortcuts. See Web terminal.

See also

• FAQ — common questions answered
• Troubleshooting — fix common problems
• Quickstart — set everything up in five minutes