Documentation

How to get MikroTik Manager running, how to point it at your first router, and what to do when something does not look right.

Step 1

Installation

Docker, Docker Compose, or as a MikroTik Container App on RouterOS. Environment variables, updating, HTTPS.

Step 2

Getting Started

From your first login to your first device: sites, the RouterOS account to create, and which connection method to pick.

Step 3

Users and Access

The four roles, per-site scope, two-factor authentication and passkeys, and how to recover a locked-out account.

Day to day

Upgrades

Checking RouterOS and firmware, the four actions, and the sequential queue that upgrades powered devices before the switch feeding them.

Day to day

Backups

What a backup is here, completeness checks, three levels of schedule inheritance — and why there is no restore button.

Day to day

Logs

The built-in syslog receiver on port 5514, what to configure on the router, and how a message is matched to its device.

When stuck

Troubleshooting

What the status badges actually mean, reverse proxy and WebSocket, certificates, and why a tab is empty.

What this covers

These pages are about operating MikroTik Manager: getting it talking to your routers, and understanding what it tells you. They are not a RouterOS tutorial — where RouterOS itself is the subject, the authority is manual.mikrotik.com, and this documentation links there rather than paraphrasing it.

Everything here is checked against the shipped version. If a page contradicts what you see in the interface, the interface is right and the page is a bug worth reporting.

Reference material

Material that lives elsewhere and is not repeated here: