Viewing the list of endpoints on your network
Tailscale's endpoint collection feature lets you monitor and easily connect to the endpoints running on machines in your Tailscale network.
What are endpoints?
Endpoints are the network-exposed ports running on each of your Tailscale machines, defined
by their port and protocol. If your network has enabled endpoint collection, each of your
machines will share its live list of endpoints with your Tailscale network.
Enabling endpoint collection
This feature is disabled by default, meaning that endpoint data is never collected or shared between your devices unless you choose to enable endpoint collection. You can change this setting on the Services page of the admin console, after selecting the Discovered tab.
Although endpoint collection is a global setting for your Tailscale network, endpoints will not be sent from any machines that are blocking incoming connections.
Monitoring your endpoints
With endpoint collection enabled, your admin console will display the list of endpoints on your network. We don't currently store endpoints in our database, so the view acts as a monitoring tool for live endpoints. As you start and stop endpoints, you'll see the view reflect those changes.
Below is a preview of the Discovered tab on the Services page.
An endpoints table is also visible on each machine's details page with just the endpoints exposed by that machine.
The endpoints tables includes a type column. We categorize endpoints into types to help
you better identify them. Our categorization rules are basic and will be tuned over time,
so note that if you use an uncommon port, we may fallback to "Other" type.
Launching endpoints
From the endpoints tables, you can directly launch certain applications.
- For SSH, we show a copyable
ssh 100.x.y.zcommand. - For VNC and RDP, we show a one-select Launch button to start a remote session.
- For HTTP and HTTPs, we show a one-select Open button to open the web server.
Access controls
You can configure the access for each of your endpoints using Tailscale access control policies. If you're interested in knowing who can access each endpoint, hover over the info icon in the Access Controls column of the Endpoints table.
If someone has shared a machine from another network with you, their machine's shared ports will be visible in your endpoints list. Note that for shared machines you will only see the endpoints that the sharer has given you access to via their network's access control policies.