AvePoint has introduced
AgentPulse, a command center built to help organizations track, govern, and control AI agents as they spread across digital work environments. The release comes at a moment when businesses are embracing agentic AI for productivity gains but are also grappling with new security, compliance, and cost concerns that traditional IT frameworks weren’t designed to handle.
Centralizing Visibility Into AI Agents
AgentPulse works as a registry that consolidates every AI agent in use - across Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, ISV tools, and more - into a single view. That visibility is becoming essential as organizations deploy agents that read, write, and act on sensitive data at a rapid pace.
AvePoint’s spokesperson explained to ChannelE2E how the company is differentiating in this area: “Compared to other players, AvePoint’s AgentPulse provides the ability to operationalize Microsoft controls without added license costs, and takes a no-code, multi-cloud approach to boost observability. AvePoint’s model eliminates potential vendor lock-in, as well as gaps in coverage and discovery for shadow AI agents.”
That position reflects a growing need to catalog and understand where agents live, what permissions they have, and how they behave day to day.
Not a Point Solution - A Cross-Platform Governance Layer
The new tool also ties directly into the AvePoint Confidence Platform, which already manages data governance, access control, and lifecycle management across major collaboration systems.
As the spokesperson noted, “AgentPulse is not a single point solution like competitors may offer, nor does it only focus on a single agent type. Rather, it is directly integrated into the Confidence Platform and users’ Microsoft 365 ecosystem, offering seamless cross-platform agent management, security controls, and compliance for agents built and deployed within Microsoft’s platform.”
That integration means organizations can track agent activity at scale - whether an agent is touching sensitive files, generating large workloads, or accessing unexpected data - and take corrective action without jumping between tools.
The company describes this as a way to help teams stay ahead of data sprawl as AI adoption accelerates. “Combined with the Confidence Platform’s AI data governance, access control, and lifecycle management capabilities, organizations are now equipped to effectively track agent activity, prevent AI data sprawl, and ensure responsible deployment, without slowing innovation.”
Spotting and Fixing Risky Behavior Before It Escalates
Security leaders are already concerned about AI-driven oversharing and silent permission creep, and recent research from AvePoint highlights why: 75% of organizations using AI reported a data breach in the past year.
AgentPulse is built to help teams address those issues earlier. “AgentPulse provides automated, real-time insights into how AI agents are using data – giving IT and security teams a seamless way to identify potential risks and high activity agents, flag suspicious activity, and closely monitor agent actions before breaches happen,” the spokesperson said.
Once a risky behavior is flagged, teams can adjust access or permissions directly within the Confidence Platform. This workflow aims to reduce the lag between detection and remediation, which is where many breaches take shape.
Beyond security, the tool addresses another fast-growing issue: unexpected AI costs. High-frequency agents, large-volume data interactions, and redundant activity can all translate into bills that creep up over time.
AgentPulse surfaces high-activity or high-cost agents so organizations can review their value, adjust usage, or retire tools that no longer justify their impact.
New Opportunities for MSPs and Channel Partners
AvePoint is positioning AgentPulse as a revenue and service opportunity for managed service providers. Most MSPs today can advise on licensing or basic governance, but monitoring AI agent behavior across multiple environments is a harder problem.
The spokesperson described the benefit for partners this way: “AgentPulse empowers MSPs with the ability to offer expanded AI governance capabilities – spanning discovery, monitoring, remediation, and lifecycle management across customer environments. Partners can now provide customers unified oversight into agentic data use, activity, and risks, allowing them to take action sooner to prevent costly breaches and misuse of sensitive data.”
As customers adopt more AI-driven tools, MSPs can use AgentPulse to deliver governance as a managed service, helping clients stay ahead of security gaps and cost sprawl.
