watchmantower

Watchman Tower is a modern monitoring platform that helps you track uptime, response time, performance, and anomalies across your websites. 
This plugin connects your WordPress site to Watchman Tower and automatically sends lightweight heartbeat and performance metrics at fixed intervals.
Features: 
– Monitor your WordPress site uptime and performance 
– Automatic heartbeat checks 
– Lightweight metric sending (no impact on site speed) 
– Secure token-based authentication 
– Easy configuration panel in WordPress Settings 
– Compatible with caching plugins and CDN environments 
– Ideal for agencies managing multiple WordPress sites
You need an account at <a href="https://www.watchmantower.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Watchman Tower</a> to use this plugin.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the Watchman Tower monitoring platform in order to create accounts, send heartbeat signals, and retrieve site status.
The following API endpoints are used:
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https://api.watchmantower.com/api/auth/wp/create-account 
– Used to create a Watchman Tower account directly from WordPress. 
Data sent: site URL, admin email, optional full name, optional password.
</li>
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https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat 
– Sends periodic uptime and performance heartbeat signals. 
Data sent: WordPress version, PHP version, plugin list, server performance metrics, response time, site URL, integration token.
</li>
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https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat/unlink 
– Used when disconnecting the WordPress site from Watchman Tower. 
Data sent: integration token and site identifier.
</li>
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https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/status 
– Retrieves the current connection status for the site. 
Data sent: integration token.
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</ul>
All requests are authenticated with a secure token stored inside your WordPress database.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
To learn more about how data is handled, please refer to:
<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

Lightweight WordPress integration for Watchman Tower. Send heartbeat, performance metrics, and uptime signals automatically.

Angelo Mandato

Painless Analytics

<a href="https://www.painlessanalytics.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Painless Analytics</a> is a new web analytics service that reports the metrics that matter the most.
Note: This plugin interacts with the <a href="https://www.painlessanalytics.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Painless Analytics</a> API to retrieve and include analytics tracking code on your website. By using this plugin, your site communicates with the Painless Analytics service. Please refer to their <a href="https://www.painlessanalytics.com/company/legal/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.painlessanalytics.com/company/legal/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> to learn more.
An account (FREE or paid) from <a href="https://www.painlessanalytics.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Painless Analytics</a> is required to use this plugin
<h3>Additional Info</h3>
This plugin simplifies the implementation of Painless Analytics web analytics service onto a website. This plugin requires a valid Painless Analytics link code in order to function.
Painless Analytics does not track personal identifiable information (PII) or use cookies. Painless Analytics JavaScript code is loaded asynchronously, it does not interfere with other page operations or cause page loading delays.
<h3>Contributors</h3>
Angelo Mandato, Founder and CTO of <a href="https://www.painlessanalytics.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Painless Analytics</a> – Plugin author

Simplified web analytics focused on the metrics that matter most.

Watchman Tower vs Painless Analytics