Huntress at MSP scale
Multi-tenant portal architecture, billing reconciliation, onboarding, custom API integrations, incident runbooks, and product offboarding for customer exits.
Lessons
- 01 ~11 minMulti-tenant portal architecture, Account, Organizations, Resellers
Account vs Organization vs Reseller, the role matrix at each layer, how RBAC actually scopes visibility, and the partner-access patterns that show up in the field.
- 02 ~9 minBilling and usage reconciliation at scale
The two billing notifications, the Billing Detail Report, ITDR's billable-user model, agent counts vs Unresponsive cleanup, and a monthly reconciliation routine that catches drift before it shows up on an invoice.
- 03 ~11 minA repeatable customer onboarding playbook
Account creation through 30-day review, sequenced so each step depends only on the previous one. The order that scales: Organization, agent rollout, integrations, ITDR, SAT pilot, baseline review.
- 04 ~9 minCustom integrations against the Huntress API
The REST API surface, authentication, the Swagger preview, the MCP server for AI assistants, and patterns to build (and patterns not to build) on top.
- 05 ~12 minIncident-handling runbooks tied to Huntress reports
Severity-driven response paths, host isolation as a containment lever, identity isolation for ITDR, customer communication during an active incident, and the post-incident review that turns an incident into operational improvement.
- 06 ~11 minProduct offboarding and customer exit
A customer-exit runbook for Huntress, covering EDR agents, ITDR integrations, SAT, SIEM sources, PSA mapping, API credentials, retained reports, billing, and customer communication.
- Final quiz
Test what you learned. Wrong answers are explained on the spot.