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24/7 emergency response for your Linux servers

Add 24/7 NOC coverage to your Proactive plan. Critical issues on covered servers get a 1-hour response commitment, day or night, backed by service credit if we miss.

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What it is

What the 24/7 NOC Add-on is

NOC stands for Network Operations Center. With this add-on, an engineer is on call every hour of every day to respond to critical issues on your covered servers. Critical alerts on the servers you list go straight to the on-call engineer, and your authorized contacts can activate the NOC by phone or through the portal at any hour.

Most infrastructure breaks at inconvenient times. Middle of the night. Saturday of a long weekend. First day of a launch. NOC coverage means an engineer responds within the hour when it does, not tomorrow morning, not when the team gets in.

It layers on top of Proactive Managed Services. The initial response and triage are covered by the add-on. Engineering time to investigate and fix the issue beyond that comes from your Reactive Flextime hours, at the rate for when the work is done.

24x7 infrastructure monitoring
What's in it for you

Why teams add NOC coverage

01

Coverage while you're offline

  • An engineer is on call every hour, including nights, weekends and holidays
  • Issues get handled while your team sleeps, not filed for the morning
  • No gap between "something broke" and "someone's on it"
Around-the-clock coverage
02

Faster response, less downtime

  • A one-hour response commitment on every critical issue
  • Emergency work at night, on weekends and on holidays becomes available to you
  • Critical alerts reach the on-call engineer without anyone at your end lifting a finger
Fast response
03

Real engineers, one number

  • An engineer responds, not an automated acknowledgement
  • One NOC phone line and a portal form, both open any hour
  • Your authorized contacts can activate it whenever something can't wait
Senior engineers on call
04

Peace of mind

  • Your launch, the long weekend, and 3 AM are all covered
  • Protects revenue and reputation when uptime matters most
  • You get to step back from being the on-call escalation
Peace of mind
The guarantee

Our response time commitment

1 HOUR Response time SLA

For any managed client in good standing, we respond within one hour to any critical issue on covered servers. 24 hours a day. Every day.

What that means

One hour isn't an automated acknowledgement. It's an engineer responding to your critical issue while your team sleeps, any hour of any day of the year. The commitment is written into your agreement, with a service credit behind it.

Who responds · the on-call engineer, not a script or a queue.
Real engineers
When · nights, weekends, and holidays included, not just business hours.
Every single day
How you reach us

How to activate NOC

Automatic for the critical alerts on servers you list. A phone number and a portal for everything else. A message in a shared channel or an email isn't an activation; it's picked up in the next business hours.

Method 01

Automatic dispatch

24/7 · dispatch immediately

When a critical alert fires on a server or cluster you've listed for automatic dispatch, it goes straight to the on-call engineer without you having to lift a finger. Anything not on that list raises alerts for review in business hours, and you can still call it in.

Method 02

Call the NOC line

1-403-399-0790

Our 24/7 answering service verifies you're an authorized user on a NOC agreement, then dispatches to the on-call engineer. Available any hour of the day.

Method 03

Use the portal

portal.craftypenguins.net

NOC-agreement clients have an additional form in the portal that sends a NOC-level support request. Dispatches immediately to the on-call engineer.

What counts as critical

What qualifies as a critical issue

Category 01

Automatically detected

A specific, measurable event our monitoring picks up on its own. The alert fires, the on-call engineer is dispatched, the response clock starts.

Server unreachable Service failure Full disk Hardware error Out-of-memory error
Category 02

You phone it in

Any high-severity service-impacting issue you report for investigation. If your team sees something urgent that our monitors haven't caught yet, the phone line or portal is how you make it critical.

Symptoms your team is seeing Customer-impacting incidents Anything urgent enough to call at night
Requirements

Prerequisites for NOC coverage

The 24/7 NOC Add-on isn't a standalone product. It layers on top of an active managed engagement. Three things need to be true.

Requirement 01
Managed Client

You have an active monthly Proactive agreement with maintenance, and onboarding and stabilization work has been completed.

Requirement 02
Good Standing

All monthly services paid by the first business day of the month. Reactive agreement paid and current. Not at your credit limit for overage.

Requirement 03
Covered Server

The server in question is on both a Proactive plan and this 24/7 NOC Add-on. The SLA applies per-server, not blanket to your whole fleet.

Required engagements

What this add-on layers onto

You'll need a Proactive agreement to designate covered servers, and Reactive Flextime for the engineering work beyond the initial response and triage.

NOC in action

All success stories
Proactive, then each layer on top

What each layer adds, side by side.

Service
Base Proactive Managed Services
Add-on + High Security Add-on MDR Add-on included
Add-on + 24/7 NOC Add-on
Add-ons + Both add-ons
Proactive Managed Services
Server, application and network monitoring
Included
Included
Included
Included
Every alert reviewed by an engineer
Included
Included
Included
Included
Patching inside your maintenance windows
Included
Included
Included
Included
Daily file-level and database backups
Included
Included
Included
Included
Quarterly engineer health checks
Included
Included
Included
Included
Managed server configurations
Included
Included
Included
Included
Business technology reviews and regular IT meetings
Included
Included
Included
Included
Monthly report
Included
Included
Included
Included
High Security Add-on
Host-based Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) coverage
Not included
Included
Not included
Included
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) scanning every six hours
Not included
Included
Not included
Included
Security penetration testing
Not included
Included
Not included
Included
Firewall audits
Not included
Included
Not included
Included
Access and authorization auditing
Not included
Included
Not included
Included
Security section in your monthly report
Not included
Included
Not included
Included
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Add-on: a Security Operations Center (SOC) hunting threats around the clock
Not included
Included
Not included
Included
Optional host-based antivirus scanning
Not included
Included
Not included
Included
24/7 NOC Add-on
An engineer on call around the clock for critical issues
Not included
Not included
Included
Included
One-hour initial response commitment
Not included
Not included
Included
Included
Automatic dispatch when a critical alert fires on servers you list
Not included
Not included
Included
Included
24/7 NOC phone line and portal request form
Not included
Not included
Included
Included
Emergency work at night, on weekends and on holidays, from your Reactive Flextime hours
Not included
Not included
Included
Included
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How We Become Part of
Your Team

We don't just hand over a monitoring dashboard and disappear. Here's how we build a lasting partnership.

Step 01

Discovery Call

We learn your environment, pain points, and goals. No scripts, no sales pressure, just an honest conversation about what you need.

Step 02

Onboarding

A structured, practical onboarding process. We set up the services you chose, deploy monitoring where they include it, and tune alert thresholds with you through the first month.

Step 03

Your Services Begin

Whichever services you chose go live, delivered by engineers who already know your systems. From day one, the work keeps your infrastructure healthy and improving.

Step 04

Long-Term Partnership

We become an extension of your team. Strategic input, roadmap planning, and continuous improvement, not just keeping the lights on.

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Let's discuss how we can help support, grow, and optimize your Linux infrastructure, done right the first time.