Who is responsible#
PixAgentur (Sven Gauditz) makes ServerWatch. The app runs on your Mac and on the servers you add yourself; PixAgentur has no access to those servers, their metrics, or your configuration. PixAgentur is responsible for the little data that arises at all in this process; contact details are in section 6.
What data the app processes and where it lives#
ServerWatch stores your server addresses and settings in macOS UserDefaults, API keys and SSH passwords in the macOS Keychain, and 30 days of metric history in an SQLite file under ~/Library/Application Support/ServerWatch/. Widget data sits in the App Group container shared by the app and the widget. All of it stays on your Mac; none of it leaves the device unless you export it yourself, as CSV or JSON.
Where the app connects#
ServerWatch connects in exactly five cases:
- To your servers
- When: on every poll, at the interval you set (30 seconds on Free, 5 seconds on Pro).
- To webhook targets (Slack, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, or a custom URL)
- When: when an alert you configured yourself fires.
- To Apple, for map tiles
- When: when you open the server map.
- To Apple, for location lookup
- When: only if you enter a location in the server settings and tap Look Up.
- To the PixAgentur update server
- When: only if you turn on update checking in Settings; it ships off, and with it off the app never checks for updates.
What the app does not do#
- No telemetry. ServerWatch does not measure or send anything about how you use it.
- No accounts. Purchase and activation work without registration, using only the license key.
- No sharing. Your server data, metrics, and configuration go to no one except the targets you set up yourself.
- Status page without detail. It runs on your own server through the PHP agent, is off by default, and shows only rounded percentages, load, and uptime, never processes, containers, IP addresses, exact storage sizes, or the hostname.
License key#
A license key holds your name and purchase date, signed with Ed25519. ServerWatch checks it offline on your Mac against a public key built into the app; that check needs no connection to PixAgentur or Apple. The key stays local, in the app's own configuration. If you bought through shop.pixagentur.com, the shop handles your payment and order data separately from the app, under its own privacy policy.
Your rights and contact#
You have the right to access, correct, and delete your data. Since ServerWatch keeps almost everything only on your Mac, you can delete server settings, metric history, and the license key yourself, at any time: in the app, in the Keychain, or in the application folder under ~/Library/Application Support/ServerWatch/. For anything that involves PixAgentur directly, such as an order in the shop, write to datenschutz@pixagentur.com.