taiku observer

ENDPOINT RECORDER

The black-box recorder
for your machines.

taiku observer is a small agent that records what a machine is doing — screen, input, processes, network and devices — and lands every event on one precise timeline. Scrub any moment later, or watch it live from the hosted dashboard.

01 One timeline, every signal

Each capture stream is stamped against a single master clock, so a keypress, the process it launched, and the frame where it happened line up to the millisecond — no guesswork across logs.

Screen

Continuous frame capture of the display, indexed so any instant on the timeline resolves to the exact frame on screen.

Input

Keyboard and mouse activity metadata — timing, position, key identity. Not a keylogger: typed content is never recorded.

Processes & network

Process starts and exits, plus network flows attributed to the process that made them — who ran, when, and what it talked to.

Devices

USB and peripheral plug/unplug events, so hardware changes sit on the same timeline as everything else.

Runs quietly as an always-on service with rotating segments and retention caps. Audio capture exists but is strictly opt-in. Any stream missing a permission degrades gracefully instead of failing.

02 The hosted dashboard

Pair a device once and it reports to your dashboard — watch it live, or scrub back through recorded sessions.

Dashboard devices view: a list of paired devices showing online or offline status and whether each is currently recording
A Devices — every paired machine at a glance: online state and recording status.
Dashboard live view: a near-real-time event feed with network, process, input and device lanes plus a narration of what is happening now
B Live — a near-real-time feed of events across all lanes, with a running narration of what's happening now.
Dashboard history view: a recorded session being scrubbed on a timeline, with session list, signal lanes and the event feed at the playhead
C History — scrub any recorded session; the lanes and event feed follow the playhead.

03 Downloads

Signed builds for every platform. Grab the installer for a managed always-on setup, or the bare archive to run it yourself.

Platform Archive Installer
macOS Apple Silicon taiku-observer-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz .pkg
macOS Intel taiku-observer-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz .pkg
Linux x86_64 taiku-observer-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz .deb / .AppImage
Linux ARM64 taiku-observer-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz .deb / .AppImage
Windows x64 taiku-observer-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip .msi

SHA-256 checksums for every build are published alongside the artifacts in the release manifest.

04 Quickstart

Unpack, pair the device to your dashboard, start recording. 

# or run the .pkg installer and skip straight to pairing
tar xzf taiku-observer-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
./taiku-observer pair      # link this device to your dashboard
./taiku-observer service   # start recording

pair prints a short code to approve in the dashboard — the agent never sees your password. Capture streams that need an OS permission ask once and simply stay off until granted.