Cook Strait Technology CST Pulse
For Cato Networks admins & MSPs

Your Cato tenants,
in your pocket.

CST Pulse shows the live status of every site, WAN link, and connected SDP user — and alerts you the moment something goes down, degrades, or comes back online. No laptop required.

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iOS only for now · Free for a single tenant · iPhone · iOS 17+

What it does

Answer "is it down?" from anywhere.

Pulse connects directly to the Cato Networks API with your own view-only key — no middleman servers, no agents to install. Setup takes under a minute.

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Live View Telemetry

Monitor throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss, and circuit health in real time. Watch live charts update automatically, choose the refresh interval, and touch and drag across a chart to inspect exact circuit values and timestamps.

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Smart Network Summary (Beta)

Generate an on-demand network briefing for the last 12 hours, or 24 hours. See outages, affected sites, downtime, recoveries, active incidents, network trends, and the supporting connectivity events behind each incident.

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Sites & links, live

Every site with problems sorted to the top. Drill into HA readiness, socket versions, license status, and each WAN link's tunnel uptime, PoP, bandwidth, and remote IP. Network Analysis graphs throughput over time, and Connectivity Events tracks every link, routing, and socket change in one searchable timeline.

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SDP users

Everyone connected remotely, grouped by PoP or searchable. Tap a user for their ISP, public and internal IPs, location, device, OS, and Client version — plus a full Snapshot with device history and recent connections, and when an offline user was last seen.

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Alerts — free for everyone

Notifications when a site or an individual WAN link goes down, degrades, or is restored, including choosing exactly which sites and links can notify you. Smart noise control: a down site sends one alert, not one per dead link.

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App Lock

Add a PIN, Face ID, or Touch ID on top of your device's own lock screen. Pulse locks itself the moment it's backgrounded, so a glanced-at phone never means an open dashboard.

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Private by design

API keys live in the iOS Keychain and talk only to Cato. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party servers — read the privacy policy.

Pulse Pro

Monitor every customer. Spot problems before your phone starts ringing.

Pulse Pro is built for consultants, MSPs, and administrators responsible for more than one Cato environment. See every tenant in one place, switch quickly between customers, and identify issues across your portfolio.

  • Unlimited Cato tenants
  • Every tenant in the All-tenants dashboard — Compact and Detailed views, sorted by what needs attention
  • Switch tenants in two taps
2 MONTHS FREE ON ANNUAL
$79.99/year
or $9.99/month · cancel anytime
The free version includes one tenant, site and WAN link monitoring, SDP users, notifications, watchlists, diagnostics, and the All-tenants dashboard.
Release notes

What's new in Pulse

Every update, documented here.

Version 1.5

September 2026
  • NewLive View provides real-time WAN telemetry for every site, including throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss, circuit health, and live performance charts.
  • NewInteractive chart inspection lets you touch and drag across Live View graphs to view exact timestamps and circuit values.
  • NewConfigurable Live View refresh intervals allow near real-time monitoring of network performance and circuit health.
  • NewSmart Network Summary (Beta) generates on-demand network briefings for the last 12 hours, or 24 hours.
  • NewSmart Network Summary (Beta) highlights outages, affected sites, downtime, recoveries, active incidents, and network trends in an easy-to-read format.
  • NewSummary reports include supporting connectivity events, allowing you to drill into the evidence behind each incident.
  • ImprovedCircuit events display friendly circuit names from Cato when available, making outage reports easier to understand.

Version 1.4

September 2026
  • NewSee how long a down link has been down, right from the Links screen.
  • ImprovedNetwork Analysis now breaks each chart down by individual circuit, with a new Total view for Throughput and Peak Throughput.
  • ImprovedCircuits are ordered primary-first, and chart colors now stay consistent every time you open a chart.
  • ImprovedThe Sites summary now turns orange or red at a glance when something needs attention.
  • ImprovedFaster site refresh, plus richer Connectivity Events with more event types surfaced.
  • ImprovedRefreshed/updated timestamps now show seconds, and tenant name appears under site and user names for clarity.

Version 1.3

September 2026
  • NewNetwork Analysis — Max Throughput graphs (upstream and downstream) for every site, with 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day views. Tap a chart to go full screen, rotate for a wider view, and drag along the graph to see the exact time and value at any point.
  • NewConnectivity Events now covers link quality, routing, socket, and interface changes too, not just connect/disconnect/failover — all in one searchable timeline, with a quick summary of events, outages, and failovers for the selected window.
  • NewSnapshot — a full live drill-down for any user: directory info, device history, and recent connections, matching what you'd see in the Cato Management Application.
  • NewOffline users now show when they were last connected, or "Never connected" if they never have been.
  • NewApp Lock — secure Pulse with a PIN code, Face ID, or Touch ID, under Settings > Security.
  • NewThe "All tenants" dashboard now has two views — Compact (with SDP users online) and Detailed (site, circuit, and SDP user online/offline breakdown per tenant) — and no longer requires Pro to view. Pro is still needed to monitor more than one tenant.
  • ImprovedThe Users tab is now called SDP Users, to match Cato's own terminology.
  • ImprovedDiagnostics now includes a dedicated Metrics Cache section — entries, cached data points, storage size, freshness, and a way to clear it independently of everything else.
  • ImprovedThe "All tenants" dashboard now caches its data and refreshes in the background, so it opens instantly with a brief notice while it checks for updates — the more tenants you have, the more this helps.
  • ImprovedTenant lists throughout the app — the tenant switcher, Manage Tenants, per-tenant notification settings, and Diagnostics — are now always shown in alphabetical order.
  • FixedThe Users tab could occasionally show "Showing cached user data" right after reopening the app, even with a fine connection — a brief network hiccup right as the app resumes is now retried automatically before falling back to cached data.
  • FixedDiagnostics' Clear Cache action didn't always turn every row green on completion, even though the clear itself succeeded.
  • FixedConnectivity Events now reliably checks for new events in the background every time you open it or switch time ranges, instead of only refreshing once the cache went stale — with a quiet spinner at the bottom of the list while it checks.

Version 1.2

September 2026
  • NewDiagnostics screen in Settings — see what's cached on this device, and clear or rebuild it, for one tenant or all of them, if something ever looks stale or wrong.
  • NewThe link picker for notifications now groups links by socket and shows each one's Active, Passive, or Last Resort role and public IP, so it's easy to pick the right one even on sites with a lot of links.
  • ImprovedAlert watchlists — choosing exactly which sites or links can notify you — are now free for everyone, not just Pro.
  • ImprovedNew setups now start with every alert type on, covering every site and link, instead of link alerts being off by default.
  • ImprovedSites and the notification picker now load instantly from cache and refresh quietly in the background — noticeably faster if you manage a lot of tenants or a tenant with a lot of sites.
  • ImprovedLicense info now shows right on the site it applies to, instead of a separate tenant-wide list.
  • ImprovedRemoving a tenant now also clears any of its cached data, instead of leaving it behind.
  • FixedThe site detail screen's socket model could fail to load.
  • FixedThe Users tab could briefly claim “Live status is current” right after opening, before the live check had actually finished.
  • FixedAdding a second tenant and tapping into the Name field could briefly freeze the app.
  • FixedThe “Group online users by PoP” row could appear misaligned.

Version 1.1

August 2026
  • NewLicenses — see every license on the tenant with expiry status at a glance, right from the tenant menu.
  • NewWAN link role badges — each link now shows whether it's Active, Passive, or Last Resort.
  • ImprovedSites with one WAN link down but others up now correctly show as Degraded instead of Connected.
  • ImprovedOn HA sites, the master socket always shows first and is highlighted so it's easy to spot.
  • FixedA couple of Settings icons that could briefly flash the wrong color after visiting Notifications.

Version 1.0

August 2026
  • NewInitial release — live status for sites, WAN links, and SDP users across your Cato tenants.
  • NewFree notifications: site and per-link down, degraded, and restored alerts, configurable per tenant.
  • NewUser drill-down: ISP, public and internal IPs, location, device, OS, and Cato Client version.
  • NewPulse Pro: unlimited tenants, the all-tenants overview, and alert watchlists — $9.99/month or $79.99/year.
  • NewFull dark mode and promo-code redemption on the paywall.