Peter Booker

<p>PromPress tracks various website and WordPress related metrics for collection by <a href="https://prometheus.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Prometheus</a>, which allows you to monitor your site’s performance and health. You can even setup dashboards with <a href="https://grafana.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Grafana</a> and/or setup alerting via <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/alertmanager/" rel="nofollow ugc">Prometheus Alertmanager</a>.</p>
<p>(Note: Requires Object Caching via Redis to be active, so that the plugin can store metrics.)</p>
<p>We track a range of Website and WordPress specific metrics:</p>
<ul>
<li>Request Count</li>
<li>Request Duration</li>
<li>Request Peak Memory Usage</li>
<li>External Request Duration</li>
<li>Query Count</li>
<li>Query Duration</li>
<li>Plugin Updates</li>
<li>Theme Updates</li>
<li>Emails Sent</li>
<li>User Count</li>
<li>Post Count</li>
<li>Option Count</li>
</ul>
<p>This gives you the ability to monitor the performance of your website over time and get an early warning of potential problems, like your site sending a lot of emails or the post count increasing a lot.</p>
<p>We purposefully avoid general software and/or server level metrics which are better handled outside of the website, like detailed database metrics which is better handled via the <a href="https://github.com/prometheus/mysqld_exporter" rel="nofollow ugc">mysqld exporter</a>.</p>


PromPress

Monitor the performance and health of your site with Prometheus.

watchmantower

<p>Watchman Tower helps agencies and multi-site managers monitor multiple WordPress client websites from a single dashboard.</p>
<p>Track uptime, response time, SSL certificates, domain expiry, and WordPress health signals, before your clients notice problems.</p>
<p>Designed for growing agencies, Watchman Tower lets you start with 10 sites for free and upgrade as your portfolio expands.</p>
<p>Installation takes seconds. Create a Watchman Tower account directly from the plugin settings (no password required to start) or connect instantly using an existing integration token.</p>
<p>Once connected, your WordPress site sends lightweight heartbeat signals including performance metrics, version information, update statuses, and health diagnostics. All monitoring results and alerts are visible in your Watchman Tower dashboard.<br />
All monitoring results and alerts are visible inside your Watchman Tower dashboard:</p>
<p>https://app.watchmantower.com<br />
More details: https://www.watchmantower.com</p>
<p>Watchman Tower is ideal for individual site owners, developers, and agencies.<br />
The platform supports <strong>up to 10 monitored sites for free</strong>, making it one of the most accessible monitoring solutions for WordPress users.</p>
<p>This plugin is lightweight, secure, cron-friendly, CDN-compatible, and optimized for high-performance environments.</p>
<h3>⭐ Key Features</h3>
<h4><strong>Core Monitoring</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>24/7 uptime monitoring  </li>
<li>Response time tracking  </li>
<li>Latency breakdown (DNS, TLS, TTFB)  </li>
<li>SSL certificate expiry alerts  </li>
<li>Domain expiry alerts  </li>
<li>Multi-region monitoring (global probe checks)  </li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>WordPress-Specific Monitoring</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress core update alerts  </li>
<li>Plugin update alerts  </li>
<li>Theme update alerts  </li>
<li>PHP version tracking  </li>
<li>Active plugin list reporting  </li>
<li>Cron health checks  </li>
<li>Security-sensitive change detection  </li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>Integration Features</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic site registration with Watchman Tower  </li>
<li>Secure token-based communication  </li>
<li>Lightweight heartbeat system (no performance impact)  </li>
<li>Cache-compatible and CDN-safe request structure  </li>
<li>Manual “Send Heartbeat Now” action  </li>
<li>One-click unlink functionality  </li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>Agency & Multi-Site Support</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>Manage all client WordPress sites from one centralized dashboard  </li>
<li>Start with 10 monitored sites for free  </li>
<li>Upgrade seamlessly as your agency grows  </li>
<li>Share public status pages with clients  </li>
<li>Configure alerts via Email, Slack, Push, and SMS  </li>
</ul>
<p>You need a Watchman Tower account to use this plugin.<br />
You can create one directly inside the plugin settings screen or by visiting:</p>
<p>https://app.watchmantower.com</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the Watchman Tower monitoring platform in order to create accounts, send heartbeat signals, and retrieve site status.</p>
<p>The following API endpoints are used:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>https://api.watchmantower.com/api/auth/wp/create-account<br />
– Used to create a Watchman Tower account directly from WordPress.<br />
Data sent: site URL, admin email, optional full name, optional password.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat<br />
– Sends periodic uptime and performance heartbeat signals.<br />
Data sent: WordPress version, PHP version, plugin list, server performance metrics, response time, site URL, integration token.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat/unlink<br />
– Used when disconnecting the WordPress site from Watchman Tower.<br />
Data sent: integration token and site identifier.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/status<br />
– Retrieves the current connection status for the site.<br />
Data sent: integration token.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>All requests are authenticated with a secure token stored inside your WordPress database.</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>To learn more about how data is handled, please refer to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://www.watchmantower.com/privacy-policy</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://www.watchmantower.com/terms-of-service</li>
</ul>


Watchman Tower

Centralized WordPress monitoring for agencies. Track uptime, performance, SSL, and site health across multiple client sites.

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